From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264318AbUEIJNx (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2004 05:13:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264321AbUEIJNx (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2004 05:13:53 -0400 Received: from port-212-202-41-96.reverse.qsc.de ([212.202.41.96]:28289 "EHLO rocklinux-consulting.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264318AbUEIJNv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 May 2004 05:13:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 11:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20040509.111350.67880957.rene@rocklinux-consulting.de> To: kangur@polcom.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rock-user@rocklinux.org Subject: Re: Distributions vs kernel development From: Rene Rebe In-Reply-To: References: <200405090707.i49776Iv000342@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20040509.105253.26927810.rene@rocklinux-consulting.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.1 on XEmacs 21.4.13 (Rational FORTRAN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "heap.localnet", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or block similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Hi, On: Sun, 9 May 2004 10:59:48 +0200 (CEST), Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > You have binary packages in Gentoo so you can build once for many > machines. All you need is to add one option to /etc/make.conf. [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On: Sun, 9 May 2004 10:59:48 +0200 (CEST), Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > You have binary packages in Gentoo so you can build once for many > machines. All you need is to add one option to /etc/make.conf. But the last time I took a look not even an installer or such. + Gentoo has no support for custom modifications not even thinking about a way to group such custom modifications / build configuration into a well defined way to form a distribution. + ROCK Linux has a real sandbox build environment, not this optimization via CFLAGS, and so on Gentoo wannabe. ROCK Linux is a build kit, allowing to define a set configurations / modifications to create e.g. special embedded or server distributions without the need to repackage all the packages and writing a build script for those ... And when you read some ebuild scripts you find the ROCK Linux automatics and tag based ASCI package description format very pleasant, e.g.: http://svn2.rocklinux-consulting.de/rock-linux/trunk/package/base/rsync/ Sincerely yours, René Rebe - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer -- René Rebe - Europe/Germany/Berlin rene@rocklinux.org rene@rocklinux-consulting.de http://www.rocklinux.org http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de