Alpha Core Development

[Oliver Falk]

Am 2007-03-13 12:32, Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> Oliver Falk wrote:
> 
>> Am 2007-03-13 10:34, Balint Cristian schrieb:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:12, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Is there any CVS available at the moment? I mean for the -axp- 
>>>> related builds specfiles/patches!?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Oliver,
>>>     Not yet, due to lack of infrastructure.
>>>
>>>
>>> Only thing we got, is a good place where publish packages and 
>>> releases, thats all.
>>>
>>>     We use a simple method, and we only keep 'touched' packages in an 
>>> SRPMS folder, so all alpha specific patches are embeded in src.rpms:
>>>
>>> e.g for 3.0b branch
>>> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/3.0b/SRPMS
>>>
>>>     We dont keep any other src.rpm , they are aviable on fedora 
>>> mirrors, and those unlisted
>>> packs are the same as ours, i see no sense republish tham too.
>>
>>
>> Sure. That's good.
>>
>>>    We olso tag 'axp' string over packages to show up that it contain 
>>> specific alpha hooks,
>>> and package differ from original fedora one.
>>
>>
>> OK. Well....
>>
>> There are not much packages left which need patching for alpha. That's 
>> really great... Now someone only needs to bugzilla the diffs and 
>> patches. :-)
> 
> Yea, in the past RH accepted patches to their work, but didn't wanted to 
> hold alpha specific patches to the main package source. Instead, they 
> wanted to have it fixed by source provider. That's ok. It just takes 
> sometime then main source gets to fedora repository...

In the past, RH used to make a alpha distribution :-)

However, if the patch is specfile specific (no source code patching), I 
hope they will include it :-)