RE: [seul-edu] ISO progress

["Darryl Palmer" <Darryl_Palmer_Jr@acm.org>]

One of the things that I am currently working on is setting up a machine
with the various distros to make and test the packages.  I currently
have RedHat, Debian, and Slackware and I am currently looking at how to
exactly install ALT Linux from the ftp site.  Is it necessary for us to
have a tested package for all the versions, or can we just have it for
Debian?  

There are some issues/problems with Debian currently with QT and some
other packages in unstable that are required for building from source.
There are also differences between the version of certain packages in
RedHat and Debian that made compiling of some packages necessary from
source, or that require there to be a hybrid sarge/sid/woody system
installed in Debian.

If we are making this for Debian, do we have on our ISO all the deb's
necessary to move the system from Woody to a state where the
applications can be installed?  This also implies that we include the
unstable and untested support packages that are necessary.  For RedHat
8, should we likewise have all the RPM's that are necessary for going
from a standard install?  RedHat 8 contains newer packages then Debian,
and most of the problems I had with it are that the packages are "too"
new.

Darryl

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org] On Behalf
Of Doug Loss
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:06 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] ISO progress

<snip>

This is true.  Paul Nelson, Harry McGregor, and I (and Bill Ries-Knight
if he can make it) will be exhibiting and presenting at NECC 2003 (the
National Educational Computing Conference) in Seattle at the end of
June/beginning of July.  I don't know how much visibility we'll be able
to achieve (we'll be competing with large commercial software vendors),
but we will definitely be "showing the flag."  Harry will be passing out
the OSEF CDs he's developed from Knoppix, and I'd like to be able to do
the same with our ISO (at least a preliminary version of it).  But for
that to happen, we'll need to buckle down and get some work done!