From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Apr 27 05:51:05 2008 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HFofqe6fhvxyVs+d9xnH8gvPfiN1MoAowA9xegieAaI=; b=WLThCG0jLilZwBafsqvLvyq+rzxig7+Xa/TQz2gxm+I+zhC9Q9sUiSV9415qvMvUZn0rVJRkMkSGqA6eHYm7jhhzj+OevvvZxTviG6AGskng+lQtFXLbC8EiOsAyU0/DZYy+oYX4KWkN6JRB27y9cQeAjjF8HhxQPInkZJYhxf4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xzBDUKwtquTfk8lH4kGfJ9H0N3owZuxTsKd+EguENDs7rt2lSL9fILUkCxl+TD7bXcOksJvfhLmWygvSWG0LRoOlS4Ao2Z/BYnobDS/DmaMLCsC5O8HepycaEE4Udeoe8vxDAH8bBlYOOC/M4RLo9VEBQ/2EQU6ZQW7q0TgipqY= Message-ID: <48144BA6.2080000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:47:18 +0200 From: Miro Kropacek Organization: Mystic Bytes User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] freemint & xaaes release References: <48144B36.8050105@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48144B36.8050105@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: miro.kropacek@gmail.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Erm, forgot to send to mintlist, too. Miro Kropacek wrote: > >> Maybe it's also a good idea to make a new release of the freemint >> kernel. I know that a lot of people already regulary use the the >> current-cvs version of freemint & xaaes, so it seems to be pretty >> stable :-) >> > I welcome this as well. In fact, everytime I do reinstall (either for > testing or new install) the first thing after easymint setup is to > copying new kernel from cvs... and if I need mintlib, I do it as well. > > One comment: there are some RPMs (freemint, freemint-gem, > freemint-net, freemint-sbin) -- it would be good idea to update them, > too. At least I remember I fixed one thing in slattach. And also, > maybe we should reconsider the need for all this RPMs -- their names > are very confusing, I remember I realized maybe after 3 years(!) what > are they for... > > You can't use freemint kernel RPM without kernel itself and the > toswin2, fscheck etc... they are nearly independent from freemint... > but I don't know, let the other say their commentary on this.. My idea > is to have something like kernel.zip (with all kernels and drivers), > xaaes.zip (with all xaaeses, RSCs, ...) and freemint-tools.zip (with > all stuff from freemint/tools and net tools). RPMs are in my opinion > too confusing for new users (and there's plenty of them who are new to > freemint) -- it's easier for them to unzip archives and look what are > they for. > -- MiKRO / Mystic Bytes http://mikro.atari.org