On Sun Jun 08, 2003 at 09:49:20AM +0200, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > >Also, don't forget updates. Unless the people who build these ports are > >willing to maintain a system/chroot/whatever dedicated for 18mos for > >building updates for these ports, it won't happen. As Stefan says, making > >this stuff "official" means it needs to be maintained; without having > >access > >to these various machines for the duration of the lifecycle, it's not even > >worth starting it. > > > Yes. > > >That being said, there is nothing from stopping a community built/community > >hosted unofficial port; the community builds the port, the community > >maintains the port, and MandrakeSoft doesn't have any official dealings > >with > >it (ie. the community completely and 100% supports it themselves). > > > Yes.
Glad you understnad this... hopefully, others will understand this as well. > >For alpha, mips, pa-risc, and sparc, I think that would be the best shot. > >You could like talk ibiblio or someone into hosting the port if you wanted > >to make an "unofficial 9.2/pa-risc" release (or whatever). > > > We first need to get our act together :-) The alpha port is still on the > mdk mirrors at the moment. I can imaging that mdk perhaps won't do the > same for the other ports that have sprung up lately. Well, you never know. There could be a clear Mandrake-unsupported directory. Or it could be something that people need to contact ibiblio or something directly. That's probably the least of your concerns right now. > >For PPC, I'd love to see it released in tangent with x86 (as well as x86-64 > >and ia64 I guess). > > > Yes. Have release schedules been published for these products? Not to my knowledge. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
