[Freemint-discuss] RPMint

[Mark D. <mdu...@at...>]

Hello all,

I bought rpmint.com and wanted to announce that I wanted to
fork/continue on with sparemint as a new name, RPMint.  What I am
planning to do is a slight divergence from sparemint but ultimately the
same.  The goals are:

* Auto builder which builds same packages for coldfire, 68020-60 and 68000

* Clean up rpm build dependencies so that autobuild can rebuild
everything from scratch without screwing up the dependencies.  The
purpose being that if a static lib is updated, the entire system can be
updated automatically.  Backend will facilitate this and will bump up
revisions prompting package updates.

* Revised init scripts which run a bit faster and leaner - up for debate

* Updated packages (many already completed just need to put it all together)

* GEM/CLI package installer/updater

* Comprehensive website (will be postgresql/c#/mvc running on
mono/linux).  Will allow package upload, community approval, deployment
to auto build servers, searching by file, package info, historical
package archive, etc.  The autobuilder will also be a C# app that will
monitor and control via ssh.

* For experienced users or for others to build on... Primary focus on
unix cli tools and ports - easymint and other products should take
RPMint work and build on it.  RPMint is JUST the distro, not an
installer or kernel maintenance tools.  Kernel will not be a package at
all.  RPMint is just intended to maintain what is on the ext2 partition
traditionally so no xaaes, no kernel, etc.

* RPMint will lift and otherwise reuse community work whenever
possible.  Vincent Riviere's patches, Alan's work with gentoo, etc.

I did work on all this before but I lost interest due to a lack of
control over sparemint and no interest from sparemint people.  Now I
have no excuses so we'll see what I can do with it.  It's vaporware at
the moment but I wanted to put this out there to allow people to comment
and offer opinions on how things should go.  Ultimately I do not plan to
exercise a lot of control over this but just wanted a platform with
which to share the ports I've done.. and I prefer RPM.

Build farm is an M5484LITE board for coldfire, and two aranym instances
for 68000 and 68020-60.  Ssh access provided to anyone who wants to work
on it, maintain or participate... Or even build their own software. 
68000 is no longer really a waste of time due to MonSTer board and MiST
if anyone ever figures out the block io issues on that.

Thanks,

Mark