Excellent! 8-) Alex You wrote: Hi, On: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:31:28 +0200 (MEST), "Alex Bär" wrote: > Yes, of course. Forgive me, but I'm really struggling in putting precisely > what I mean. My point was not for ROCK itself, but for its target > distributions, but sentences tend to grow in length when one wants to be > correct here... ;-) > So what can an end-user do after installing the dRock CDs in order to get > the latest security patches for his system? As far as I can see there's no > standard end-user tool like SuSE's YaST Online Update or swaret for > Slackware. At first sight this might look logical, as patches are normally > provided by the vendor/distributor, ie by the person or group who built that > particular target. > But as far as I can see noone really provides patches or updates for ROCK > targets, at the moment. Which makes ROCK targets a little less interesting > to end-users than other distros. Just have the SVN checkout of the associated stable tree and run a "svn up" with successive "./scripts/Update-System" on it. This way you get all the sane and stable security update and fixes - and in a full automated way. Only Update-System could need a tiny improvement for it to work a bit more smoothly. I can do this today. > But I think this has not to remain that way. The build system creates a > large repository of binaries. What about just throwing together what > everyone had built successfully, and offer it for download from a central > FTP source? > Ok, it won't be quite that easy, and there would be many details to be > determined. But I think, most of the things needed are already there, as > parts of the build system (tool chain). What's missing is just a tool like > apt-get or swaret. One can even go a step further and only push the binary deltas. Rocket is on possible sollution for this - and my synchronicity another. Or one can improve Build-Pkg to try to get the built binary from a cache site - of course using a hash of the config in use to get the ones for the correct gcc and ROCK version ... > Of course, this is not something of the core requirements for ROCK, as this > is about targets and not ROCK itself. However, wouldn't it be good for ROCK > as a whole, if the targets were more attractive for end-users? Sure - and we are currently exploring several ways to do provide more precompiled packages and updates. Sincerely yours, René Rebe - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer -- René Rebe - Europe/Germany/Berlin rene@rocklinux.org rene@rocklinux-consulting.de http://www.rocklinux.org http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de -- +++ Jetzt WLAN-Router für alle DSL-Einsteiger und Wechsler +++ GMX DSL-Powertarife zudem 3 Monate gratis* http://www.gmx.net/dsl _______________________________________________ rock-user mailing list rock-user@rocklinux.org http://www.rocklinux.net/mailman/listinfo/rock-user