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

Pupeno <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.user
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On Thursday 22 April 2004 19:02, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> as you said, it is not possible to have an official ROCKLinux binary
> repository because there is no ROCKLinux distribution ;) what there can
Can't there be an official Rock Linux distribution ? even when Rock Linux is a 
distribution building kit, having something like the base, something like 
gentoo's GRP or something like that.

> 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.
Ok, I might have the repository... then, how do the users of my distro upgrade 
to my repository ? Since there doesn't seem to be a tool to upgrading binary 
packages like apt... should this tool be developed by the subdistro 
developers or is it something that would be welcome in main Rock ?

> 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.
Oh, that is a problem because it is something very common to solve bugs in the 
packages and upgrade. How can that be solved ? Can the name be created like 
in redhat ? or do you think it'd be possible to make an upgrade tool that 
would use dates to upgrade ?
Thanks.
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