Re: new distribution
* trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com (trixter@0xdecafbad.com) wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 13:11 -0600, Chris Larson wrote:
> > * trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com (trixter@0xdecafbad.com) wrote:
> > > lies! france has decided that I am not allowed to participate at all.
> > > competent or otherwise. his *sole* decision prevents me from staying on
> > > the mailing list, irc, etc.
> >
> > My ignorance of france's decisions doesn't make it a lie, it makes it a
> > misunderstanding. Regardless, OE's metadata isn't even within his
> > control.
> >
> That is an expression, perhaps it doesnt translate well.
>
> But isnt openembedded.org hosted on the box he controls? Isnt the cvs
Yes.
> repository under his control?
No. Bitbake (the tool that operates against OE metadata) is in a
subversion repository at http://developer.berlios.de/. The OpenEmbedded
metadata repository is in a bitkeeper repository at
http://openembedded.bkbits.net/. Neither of which have anything to do
with the handhelds.org admins. For a time there was a CVS _mirror_ of
upstream on handhelds.org, but that was only as a service to make
people's lives easier, and was never the correct means of pushing things
upstream. Snapshots of the upstream bk repo are available as well, and
patches sent to the OE mailing list or given to us by other means are
likely to be applied.
> You can tell me all you want that familiar is where its at, but that
> does not make it true. Familiar is broken, it is getting more broken
> with each release. I want to use my ipaq not constantly fix problems
> created by other people. It is for that reason that I was evaluating
> alternatives to familiar (and this was laid out in the original email).
> Your response of how I should just use familiars 1300 packages is
> unacceptable.
I did not say to "just use" those packages. The point was that the OE
metadata makes more sense as a starting point for your endeavors than
Debian does. You're welcome to disagree, and go do your own thing. I
just hate seeing people wasting time and energy reinventing the wheel
needlessly. Good luck.
--
Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
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