From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Oct 12 04:51:51 2008 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:47:49 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1339783220.20081012114749@hol.gr> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Rivi=E8re?= CC: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: [MiNT] Re[2]: distro cross-building In-Reply-To: <48F1B5F6.20607@freesbee.fr> References: <200810110019.01757.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <48EFD0D0.3040707@atari-source.org> <200810112257.48424.oak@helsinkinet.fi> <48F1B5F6.20607@freesbee.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8414/Sun Oct 12 06:30:50 2008 on takeit02.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id m9C8ppH9007919 Hello Vincent, Sunday, October 12, 2008, 11:31:50 AM, you wrote: > A source based distro is the best thing, because it can be used to > generate any other distro. > Ideally, with the perfect source-based distro, we would be able to > install it on a powerful cross-build server (Linux, ...), and generate > automatically any other binary distro : > - the whole SpareMiNT archive (with binary and source RPMs) > - a ready-to-use package with ARAnyM+MiNT (for newbies Windows users) > - and whatever you can dream ! > That should be automated on a centralized server, in order to provide > nightly builds (or weekly). > So if someone adds or fixes any software, it will be available > automatically in every distribution. Especially, if GCC or the MiNTLib > is updated, every package will be rebuilt, propagating the fixes to > everything. Hmmm, wasn't that what http://www.atariforge.org/ was supposed to be all about? -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr