Re: [rock-user] updating/upgrading... policy

> Hello rockers...
> I'm just giving Rock Linux a try to see if it works for my needs.
great :)

> I'm currently playing with drock, it has some intresting things.
> Something that is important for me is to have a repository of binary packages 
> on the internet and the possibility to download them and install them and, 
> let's say, upgrade.
> What are the plans regarding this ?
> Any plan to make a Rock Linux official package repository ? I think that 
> questions goes to the level of, any plans making a Rock Linux official 
> distro/target ? (that'd be more or less drock, Desktop Rock, right ?)
> Or should someone who makes another target be in charge of making other 
> packages and the tools to update and so on ?

as you said, it is not possible to have an official ROCKLinux binary 
repository because there is no ROCKLinux distribution ;) what there can 
be is an official binary repository for a build maintained for someone 
interested in supporting that build. A build as a 
(target,architecture,customization) element.
AFAIR, before taking the maintainance of ROCK2.0 Rene wanted to give 
real (commercial) support to dRock, releasing binary packages for a set 
of choosen flavor (builds) of it.

ROCK is a distribution build kit, and not a distribution, then someone 
like you can use it to design, and maintain your own ROCK-based 
distribution, with your own repository of built stuff for the different 
architectures you choose to support.

that's the idea :-)
if you create a target you can propose it here to be included officially 
  in target/

what you should have in mind is that .gem files are $package-$ver.gem 
and not $package-$ver-$build as redhat and other does, then small 
changes not reflected in the version of the package will not create a 
new filename. of course the date will be newer.

Best regards and good luck,
Alejandro Mery