Hi Cliff, Walter kindly forwarded your mail. I am going to answer your information in detail below.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Walter Hieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05.04.2006 17:05 Subject: Cliff Wade (Hawkwind) as potential package builder To: Tobias Gerschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Tobias I found this excellent package builder and he is interested in developing with Yoper can you fill him in on the details. Walter -----Original Message----- From: Hawkwind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:17 AM To: Walter Hieber Subject: Re: SoS Contact Form: Please consider joining Yoper Linux as a developer Walter, Thanks for the email as well as the kind words. I do have a couple of questions for ya since I'm not familiar with Yoper at all. Q: First of all, I assume you are a developer of some sort for the distro, and if so, what exactly is your role/position with Yoper ? Secondly, what package manager does Yoper use. I see on the site that apt-get and rpm are mentioned, so am I correct by saying that apt-get is the main package manager ? A: Packages are rpm . Main package management tool is smart. Apt-rpm is quite outdated , maintainership of it just recently went to Panu Matileinen, we'll see what he comes up with. Q: Does Yoper have a certain build policy to follow concerning the building of rpm's ? For example, Mandriva has quite a strict policy and I'm not sure if you are familiar with it or not. Here is a sample of their policy on this URL: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo A: I guess what you're looking for is hidden here : http://www.yoper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Yoper_Packaging_Guides Not of all it is most up-to-date . Q: I've not really used any other rpm based distro other than Mandriva with the exception of Fedora Core 3 for about a months time. Just wasn't to my liking. I joined the IRC channel but there was no one there, 2 other nicks beside me at the time. I was hoping to see a bit bigger of a community. A: Well there are times of much activity and so are others. Currently we are all a bit busy with frequent peaks. Joining the dev-list is a good idea though : https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev Q: Can you tell me what the ultimate goal of Yoper is as far as development wise. Where do ya'll want to be in 6 months, 18 months and so on ? A: Since we had a restart with development and have just went public the timeline is somewhat open. Trying to answer your question here though other input welcome. Where we are: Yoper packages are stunning fast and pretty stable. Yet quite some configuration is left undone. 6 months: Come up with a final tightened Yoper version fully functional and working right out of the box. Current issues are 1) PAM-configuration scheme 2) handling usb storage media and other external devices more properly (automatically) 12 months: Yoper-3.1 with usability improvements kickoff of 64-bit version. Q: Can you supply me with a URL of the Yoper repo that contains all of the rpms, source rpms, and all of that like Mandriva has. A: ftp://ftp.yoper.com/pub/yoper is a good place to start, if you look for yoper specific changes it's better to look here : http://www.yoper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Developers:Yoper_SVN_Access Source repository yet to setup, still on my todo-list. Feel free to dig in further and bug us . regards -- Tobias Gerschner Member of Board of Yoper Ltd. NZ Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
