On 02/27/2014 12:05 AM, Alexander Arlt wrote:
So, you turned the cow into a bird. And you did this just because you
want to have a single distribution. That's fine. It kinda feels weird, but if it's the way you want it, it's fine. But don't you think it would have been easier - and probably less nerve-wracking - to just use a more birdish-type of material?
Much of the point of free software is the fact that once something has been done once, any number of copies of it 'just work' for no extra cost. So, the missing piece here is just a reasonable way for someone else to duplicate the setup.
Again, there is the assumption that there is a reasonable way for duplicating this setup. RHEL and CentOS have a very clear focus on what they want to achieve.
Actually, I created everything for 6.x when 6.0 came out. And all I do now is to add new versions of packages from some repositories and manual downloads, or to add some new repository is I come across it. Only thing I never bothers to do is to release release rpm's with all of that packaged, mostly because I disabled GPG signatures so I do not want to raise suspicions that I messed with packages.
But just now I was reading on "cost" option for yum repositories (totally unusable) and I saw that I can assign several GPG keys to single repository, so I might pick up on my "DentOS" project :)