Re: [cobalt-users] Have SUN stopped supporting XTR?

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/21/02 12:38 PM, Travis Ogdon stated:

> An 'rpm -qa' shows 271 packages on the raq I just looked at. I'm willing to
> bet
> that all 271 could use a little work. If we look at the list of packages in
> alphabetical order... the first one is Authen::PAM. The version I have
> installed
> on my raq4r is 0.04-1. The latest version is 0.14. So, basically we're only 10
> versions and five years behind.

271 dependencies!! If we live under the cobalt vacuum. That is a lot of
re-engineering.
> 
> I think one of the most difficult things we would/will experience would be
> getting the packages in the right spots and working just like the old ones
> did.
> For several things I can see configfile incompatibilities arising that would
> at
> the very least require us to do patches to the Cobalt UI in order to maintain
> the functionality.
> 
> This may be easy to script if we can produce diffs and then just do a patch
> against a known version on the OS restore CD.

Take a look at Debian, they have some pretty good pkg installers and diff
programs. Debian is 150% Open Source.

I think, barring copyright/license issues it would be a great start to
continue where PC (pre-cobalt) left off.

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Thanks!!
Dave Thurman
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