Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: any Free BSD variant?

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:33:19 +0530
address@hidden (Shyam | ശ്യാം കാരനാട്ട്  | Karanattu) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> Thanks a LOT for yavor, and daniel for those long explanations! 
> Inspiring from it, i just cleared the maint-guide.pdf and moving on to
> developer reference and studying apt and other repo related
> stuffs. ;-). 

How long did it take you to read it?

> Ompaul was saying last month on irc about expanding the builder code
> to base it on debian, that as the short term solution that can be
> done with the limited resources and developers available. Don't know
> if any one(samgee?) is doing it now. I would have tried joining that
> but that i am yet to do a fresh running trial on builder. I (or
> anyone near me) don't have enough bandwidth to get the whole repo in
> any near time. I should take an overnight travel to IITM and get
> ubuntu repo from there next week.

Robert has taken care of a large part of the work to build gNS on
Debian, but without using Builder (using a system closer to what we'll
be aiming for in future).

> > The long term solution, in my view, is to develop an absolutely free
> > distro from scratch, of course basing it off (initially at least,
> > and probably forever for the packaging-specific toolchain) an
> > existing one.
> 
> Sure. Would be great to chase such an initiative. With the vision of
> the people at the upstream project differing, it is hard to patch it
> all the time and then to make a usable smooth system

Its harder to maintain it all from scratch. Its a huge amount of
duplicate effort - potentially a needed one, but huge.

> Once again thanks a lottt for those mails. Which explained it clearly.
> 
> Also as graziano said, what about the community repository? is there
> anything that is already done?
> something like that http://gns.katsarov.org/ ?
> I would love to do join in as i have just learned the magic of
> building debs:)  

Addressed these two in another email.
kk

> It is sure thing that we would be proceeding from the way gNS 
> currently is. Hoping to know more about the actions that can be
> done :).
> 
> Happy hacking
> Shyam K


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