On 7/11/07, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > The Belenix source-base has till now been in local filesystems or bits > and pieces being made part of the website when time permitted for the > belenix developers. > > One of the barriers to participation by many more people at a greater > depth is the lack of sources base being online and under a proper > versioning system. > > For a distro that is nearing 2years of existence, it is time that it > became available online. > > We have a good distro, the right intent, what is lacking is the right > infrastructure. > > Can we think of setting it up? Ananth (Belenix site admin) and Myself > can work out the details on the versioning/source code side. > > Joe, I was informed that you were considering setting up a server with > a public ip for the same. To start with it can be in the current > genunix site if that is acceptable. (one would need to check the > access speeds with using a non-local server) > > Any thoughts? >
+1 to the idea. However, I do have a few questions regarding what to put up. The miniroot is the obvious choice as a lot of development goes there. >From what I understand of the BeleniX structure, a huge portion (the 650 mb compressed file mounted on /usr) is statically built and updated by Moinak for each version. Will the community members be able to build upon it? AFAIK, I remember getting the 0.4 source base last year, and I did build build the iso from scratch, but the process then for all the applications was that the file list needed to be created, and their arrangement on the CD needed to be figured out before building. Thus a large amount of work was done in figuring out the right files and creating the 'include-in-cd' file. This probably is hard to get around as BeleniX is a LiveCD. I dont know how much of this still remains in the build process for 0.6(things may have changed since the SVR4 packaging in 0.6). Moinak can weigh in on this. If the structure of belenix is same, the source base can only be pulled down for building an ISO. What I would like is a source base to which it is easy to contribute into application wise. This would reduce Moinak's work, and engage a lot of interested community folks. Regards Anil PS : The above is at most a good guess of the state of BeleniX, so I might be totally wrong on the 'hard to contribute packages' part.
