actually I already built a conary rpm once, but running conary from a prebuild tarball. it had some issues that need tp be solved (and I don't know if I still have the quick and dirty spec
... > i don't get your meaning here. > i think having conary as an rpm is a prerequisite to enable widespread > adoption. actually I already built a conary rpm once, but running conary from a prebuild tarball. it had some issues that need tp be solved (and I don't know if I still have the quick and dirty spec). > but i meant even for fl:3, having conary as an rpm will make it easier to > convert a fedora install into foresight. there are of course limitations, as > we > can't deal with additional repositories a user may have that we have not > imported. > > but in general i was thinking that packaging conary as an rpm and building > fedora respin ISOs would be a good way to enable foresight installations. > this is not even aiming at adoption by the fedora community, but about > enabling > us to use fedora tools for the parts that we don't know how to do yet (like > making an iso) > > making rpms is well documented, so it should be possible for anyone among us > to > get that going. likewise building ISOs. for the initial version we can even > skip genmodel and build ISOs that match a known system-model of our design. > and if we want we could even stop there. adopting an existing fedora install > is > a nice feature, but traditionally i don't think it is to much to expect people > to install from our ISOs to get foresight. > > to get people to use fl:3 we need install images, and it looks to me that > going > the conary.rpm fedora-respin-iso way is easier than trying to figure out new > ways of doing things. > > the question for me really is, how can we get foresight into the hands of > other > people without any effort on their part (other than (re)installing) > >> But I don't think that the value of the work we >> are doing depends on that happening. > > of course not. > > greetings, martin. > > -- > eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life > hackerspace beijing - http://qike.info > -- > chief engineer eKita.co > pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org > BLUG secretary beijinglug.org > foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com > unix sysadmin > Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ > > _______________________________________________ > Foresight-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel -- Mark Trompell Foresight Linux Xfce Edition Cause your desktop should be freaking cool (and Xfce) _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
