<x-flowed>At 01:04 PM 11/27/00 -0600, "Charles Steinkuehler"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mike Noyes wrote:
> > At 01:06 PM 11/25/00 -0600, "Charles Steinkuehler"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >IMHO, this would be the perfect project and appropriate time to turn
> > >LRP distributions from 'one-man-band' projects to a real open
> > >source, community driven project (ie I don't want to do all the work
> > >myself, but I'm willing to help a lot :-)
> >
> > Charles,
> > I believe we need to get CVS trees of EigerStein, Oxygen, and
> > prototype LEAF 2.4 to facilitate this.
> > <snip>
> > Do you have any ideas for CVS structure?
>
>I've been thinking about it somewhat, but I don't have anything firm
>yet. I think the CVS trees should break down along the lines of
>individual 'programs' or sets of scripts, so they can be used for several
>different distributions. Things like weblet are simple & self
>contained. It gets uglier when you start thinking about all the scripts
>that make LRP go (linuxrc, /etc/init.d/network, all the scripts for lrcfg,
>etc). I would like to get these into CVS before modifying them (at least
>any more than I have already). The problem is exactly where to draw the
>lines, and what to do if there get to be several versions of these scripts
>that do similar work. David D., for instance, has greatly modified these
>scripts for his Oxygen release. I don't know if I should try to fold my
>modifications into his code, or keep 2 (actually 4) seperate versions
>(David's, mine, 2.9.x, and 'mountain'). I do plan on extensively
>modifying some of the low-level
>booting (ie linuxrc and the backup scripts) to allow things like LRP-CD to
>work cleanly...David's stuff does some of this, but I have yet to look
>over his code in detail to see how much I can use and what I'll have to modify.
>
>Since it's really the scripts (along with the limited busybox/POSIXness
>stuff) that make LRP different from a 'real' linux distribution, I really
>think they belong in CVS. I'll probably start by putting my extended
>network/firewall scripts into CVS, and perhaps branch out into the more
>LRP specific stuff with an updated version of my CD-ROM scripts (made
>generic enough to work with CD-ROM, floppy, or any other boot method).
David,
Do you agree with Charles? Should we put the scripts on CVS, or do you have
another idea?
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Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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