can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Andreas Schmidt
hi openpkg-users, after evaluation openpkg for some time my initial enthusiasm starts turning into light frustration, because each step i go further, new problems occur that throw me back two steps. with this email, i would like to explain to you, how i planed to use openpkg, and would be

Re: Can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Michael Schloh
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004, Andreas SCHMIDT wrote: the task: since there are a lot of projects to handle we need shared development- and test-servers for our projects. i want to use openpkg to completely separate the projects on the machine. each project gets it's own openpkg instance. a central

Re: can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Michael van Elst
Hi, be possible to get source-rpm for older versions from the cvs, but is there a guarantee, that a source-rpm of openpkg 1.2 will run in an openpkg 2.2 instance? no. It will definitely fail, the openpkg bootstrap releases are not compatible. second: java-web application-environments

Re: can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread David M. Fetter
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 05:26, Andreas Schmidt wrote: hi openpkg-users, Hi. after evaluation openpkg for some time my initial enthusiasm starts turning into light frustration, because each step i go further, new problems occur that throw me back two steps. I had this phase in my learning

Re: Can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread David M. Fetter
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 07:45, Michael Schloh wrote: a minor reason for using openpkg is, that although our development-servers are completely linux-based, the production-servers are sometimes sun-solaris machines. With only two platforms to cover, OpenPKG only has a marginal advantage

Re: Can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Michael Schloh
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 07:45, Michael Schloh wrote: a minor reason for using openpkg is, that although our development-servers are completely linux-based, the production-servers are sometimes sun-solaris machines. With only two platforms to

Re: can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004, Andreas Schmidt wrote: [...] we are developing web applications, mostly based on software like java (j2ee), apache, db-servers, ldap-servers in various combinations and configurations. Well, right after mentioning things like Java and Apache2 it becomes immediately

Re: Can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Aaron Bostick
Good point. My comment comes from a conservative point of view, in which the OpenPKG's advantages when administrating more than ten different platforms greatly outweighs those advantages when administrating only two. From a more progressive point of view you could argue that OpenPKG delivers

Re: can openpkg realy help me

2004-10-28 Thread Peter S. Mazinger
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: [...snip_all_java_apache2_mod_jk_tomcat4_stuff...] Trying to accomodate java stuff, try to learn how openpkg's specs look/work like and look at jpackage.org. There you will see how many requirements have to be met to allow tomcat4 to build/use