-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 September 2002 7:35 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sunday 15 September 2002 4:35 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > as some of you got to know until now, I switched from SuSE to Debian this > > week - - and directly hit the fact that building debs from CVS would work > > best for me to have it working the right way (tm). Now, I got into > > working with Chris lately and we try to fix the issues one by one soon > > now so that everyone can build debs himself but more important, provide > > debs for KDE constantly that work, where also most importantly betas, > > RC's and finals are provided by the day that the packages are build and > > work optimal on Debian. > > Fantastic > > > The other thing is that third party apps need to be compiled if you like > > to use them. Until now several people do that for the apps they like to > > run or that they are developing using debian as their development > > platform. The problem for the users is that the deb lines for > > sources.list are spread all over and there is no central way of getting > > the newest apps through debs for people that are not necessarily > > developers like we are. The other thing is that as developers, just doing > > a make install would work but that usually messes up our systems, > > especially as KDE has /usr as its prefix on debian. So it would be the > > best if we could somehow collect our resources and schedule building debs > > and providing them in a central place. > > Still not sure why KDE and these apps can't seem to make it into the formal > debian unstable (and then the more stable) archive and mirrors, but > apparently not - so ... > Read the FAQ at http://www.davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html
> > I talked with Dirk M�ller already and some other guys that I use to work > > with at KDE and we should provide that possibility through KDE on > > ftp.kde.org. Wether that will work out just depends on how many people > > would volunteer to participate. > > A good alternative - especially if you could set it up so that it had > different sections for stable, unstable and development (or something) so > that we could chose what. > > I am not sure how I could participate - I do have an always on, lightly > used server supporting my family at home at the end of a cable modem, but > my acceptable use conditions require that it is not used as a public server > other than for a limited (<10) password controlled connections. I could > perhaps do some regular builds (Its only a p2 400 with 128MB Ram, but it > has loads of disk space). > > As for my time, I am travelling abroad (from the UK) between 3 and 4 days a > week, so that pretty much limits what I could do. I am trying to do some > light coding or bug fixing offline in the evenings when I am away - but > last weeks attempt was feeble, I managed only an hour (working late and > then eating seems to grab most of the time). I could devote a bit more > when I am at home. > > > > > > -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9haEZYsCKa6wDNXYRAh3+AJwIU5spgBSgKEUSYKp4t9pwJnaQ2ACfYq/n U+681Wq5w7iw11lw77GzmwE= =9FIJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
