Newsflash April/May 2005

			Newsflash April/May 2005

Table of content:
- Linuxtag Karlsruhe
- Java package and NOAUTO NODIST flags
- Postinstall scripts
- ROCKDoc and ROCK Sonar moved
- Statistics


Linuxtag Karlsruhe
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050502.122432.c4eb4fc4.html

Thanks to Hannes Sowa for organising a ROCK booth and surrounding stuff
for LinuxTag Karlruhe at the end of June. Several ROCK Developers will
be there, so if you ever wanted to give them a hug, cookies or a kick
in the balls, here's your chance!


Java package and NOAUTO NODIST flags
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050520.081207.2107834f.html
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050519.113257.2f5689da.html

Stefan Fiedler implemented the NOAUTO flag for packages' .desc files.
NOAUTO means that source files for this package need to be downloaded
automatically.
The Sun-Java package has this flag because due to licensing issues, we
are not allowed to mirror the sources. Also, the package is deactivated
by default since the license also prevents us from distributing the
package in distributions.
It is - however - perfectly fine to let the user download the source
file manually and then install it. This has already led to other packages
that need the Java JRE and/or SDK, like OpenOffice.org.


Postinstall scripts
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050414.191543.5bec6818.html
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050503.220035.151831d3.html

mine version 0.22 and newer now support the long-awaited postinstall
scripts. Packages can now define actions to be executed when the package
is installed and removed.
This is expected to make the cron.run program obsolete in the long term.


ROCKDoc and ROCK Sonar moved
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050407.080603.b25ae1dd.html

Early April the ROCKDoc and ROCK Sonar sites moved from my little dial-up
connection to a real 100MBit server with a fixed IP-Address.


Statistics April:

New       Patches: 79
Applied   Patches: 151
Discarded Patches: 10
Difference in open Patches: -82
Changes in ROCK 2.1: 157
Changes in ROCK 2.0: 19
Changes in ROCKDoc : 0


Statistics May:

New       Patches: 139
Applied   Patches: 68
Discarded Patches: 22
Difference in open Patches: +49
Changes in ROCK 2.1: 75
Changes in ROCK 2.0: 13
Changes in ROCKDoc : 0


Current ROCKDoc:

ROCKDoc statistics (according to wc(1)):
Characters:	105570
Words:		15550
Lines:		2196
Longest line:	717

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