An i can gladly help continue the support for mandriva and i will add pclinuxos to this one also, since i am a 3d party mandriva and a core pclinuxos rpm dev. I have already done a lot of patching for this already
Torbjörn Turpeinen (Thac) Den Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:20:59 skrev Johannes Weberhofer, Weberhofer GmbH: > Hello Erik, > > all your suggestions are great! > > 1) is definitly better and easier to maintain. > > 2a) is a great idea. I have been working on that, because I like to > make it running on all SuSE versions from 9.1 and SLES 9+10. > I have prepeared a bunch of patches for the current spec files, > which I will comment and send to the list in a seperate mail. > I hope, it will be useful for you. > > 3) SuSE distribution should definitly be kept. I think, > when 2a) is implemented, it is relativly easy to support > many distributions. > > Your work is great, keep on! > > Johannes > > Erik A. Espinoza schrieb: > > Hey Guys, > > > > Here are some topics I'd like brought up! Anyone can bring up whatever > > they want, of course. > > > > 1) Separate Patches: What do you guys think about moving from the > > Mandrake style of patching to a Red Hat style of patching within rpms. > > In the old Mandrake style, you would combine all of the different > > patches into one big patch and apply that in the rpm. In the Red Hat > > style, you keep each patch separate, like we have been doing recently > > with the bigdns and require-auth patches on qmail-toaster. I prefer > > the Red Hat style because when upgrades come out, such as the new > > chkuser, we only have to rework the patches applied after the chkuser > > patch, where as with the Mandrake style, you have to redo the whole > > patch. > > > > 2) 1.4 Branch. I want to start the 1.4/maintenance branch soon. I > > think it should include the following: > > a) Simpler macros. We should tie similar OS's together, such as > > cnt4/fc3 and fc4/fc5/fc6. This will make the spec files a lot easier > > to read. > > b) support for fc7/cnt5 > > c) patch cleanup on qmail-toaster + new chkuser > > > > 3) Mandriva/SuSE Support. Should we keep working on these? Seems that > > the majority of our users are on FC or CentOS, is it worth using the > > limited developer time we have to keep these OS's supported? Should we > > just drop these? > > > > Thanks, > > Erik > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
