Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Who is working on what?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>> * pwlib, openh323, gnugk(, bison) by Bruce Smith
> 
> 
> I was on vacation last week.  I will resume working on that soon.

I spent the weekend in Wilmington, NC ( Atlantic coast). The small 
vacation felt really good! Did you go somewhere special?

>>> * setup script by Bruce Smith
> 
> I'm currently waiting for more feedback while I work on the above.

I just started a full recompile (testing updated sources), I'll try to 
take a look at it once I get a working system.

>>- cleaning up bas system and moving more stuff to CD 
>>(base system is too big)
> 
> I've been meaning to ask about that.
> 
> Currently it appears that all binaries go into memory.
> Is that to make it easier for security updates?
> (add patches without burning a new CD)
> 
> I was wondering if we should make one binary directory on CD, 
> and another in memory.  i.e.  take the pairs:
> 
>   /sbin & /usr/sbin
>   /bin & /usr/bin
> 
> Maybe we should put one of each on CD, and the other in memory.
> Initially the one in memory starts out empty, but updates go there, 
> and the $PATH has the one in memory first, so it gets executed from
> memory if it exists there, otherwise it runs direct from CD.

We have most of the stuff in the ramdisk because we (Friedrich and I) 
don't think CD drives are reliable enough for constant access. For a 
later release when we have DL on different (more reliable) medias, we 
can let the user choose what he wants.

For now I was thinking to move the biggest, not often used, suckers to 
CD and "symlink" them.

cya
   Heiko