> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:56:34 GMT > [email protected] (Karl Berry) wrote: > >> After the recent >> mail, I also added another check for GNU webmasters to make -- that the >> sources are readily available. >> >> Thoughts? > > Speaking of - what did it actually mean "that the sources are readily > available"? > > Did it mean that a project must actually host the sources of all contents > of the distro (including sources of Linux, GNU, Xorg, GNOME, KDE, etc.)? > This would mean a considerable amount of resources must be spent for that, > which could be a problem for small projects. > > Or would it be enough for the project to host just their own sources plus > a building mechanism which fetch the sources from their primary locations > (e. g. from > ftp.gnu.org for GNU)? That's what many distros with a ports-like system do > (like Parabola and ConnochaetOS). > > I know little about how other free distros handle this situation. > Gnewsense and Trisquel as Debian based distros have the sources in their > repository and I think BLAG offers source-RPMs. > But I wasn't, for example, able to locate sources from dyne:bolic and > Dragora (I didn't search very hard, though). >
The sources of Dragora is available via the (public) Mercurial repository: https://trac.usla.org.ar/hg/Dragora https://trac.usla.org.ar/hg/Dragora/file/e53da37613b6 I distribute local copies of original sources with a manifest of all the sources and packages. Using lzip[1] for the small size. [1] http://lzip.nongnu.org Regards, Matias
