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

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On Friday 23 April 2004 08:03, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:08:14 -0300,
>
>     Pupeno <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes - there can and is: generic. Generic is the normal build
> everything useful configuration and some kind of official ROCK Linux
> distribution.
Is there an iso or something like that ?

> However desktop -> dRock should be better support, because it is some
> sort of product here:
> http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/products/drock/index.html
I see.

> > 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 ?
>
> mine and the frontend gasgui (the one you saw during the installation)
> are able to perform binary updates, incl. stuff like modified file
> detection and backup.
Are they capable of making automatic updates from an internet repository ? 
That's what I'd need.

> > 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 ?
>
> You do not need visible version numbers for updates - can if you feel
> you need, you can customize your updated packages to include an
> virtual updated r1 s.th. version number.
Ok.. I'd like to know why I do not need them, because of the dates ?

> Have I mentioned we (ROCK Linux Consulting DE) plan a commercial
> binary update service code name "synchronicity".
That's good, unfortunatly, being jobless I can't afford to paid much and my 
friends to who I'd like to have a distro to offer can't afford it either.
Thank you.
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Pupeno: [email protected]
http://www.pupeno.com
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