Re: [Maxlinux-devel] Ok we doing! (fwd)

[Kelledin <kel...@sk...>]

On Monday 19 August 2002 03:39 am, Enrico Kern wrote:
> InceptionOS should handle .deb and .rpm packages?! Howto make
> without getting in Trouble of deinstall/install and depencies
> from packages, do we need a central index or somewhat?

Right now, we're mainly focused on rpm.  We might switch to deb,=20
but at this point it seems unlikely--all our packages will=20
probably stay in .rpm format.  The full extent of our deb=20
support will probably just extend to giving users the apt=20
toolset and letting them do what they want with it--basically=20
support debs the same way slackware supports rpms.

> And do you think we should basicaly include the pre-emptive
> patch? The window handling is a bit better and also this
> brings some more enhancements.

Definitely a good idea. :)  I might not have mentioned this, but=20
the linux-2.4.18-1 tarball comes with the preemption patch.  I=20
may tweak the preemption patch a bit, though; currently it works=20
great, but spews useless notices in my syslogs whenever=20
processes exit.

I may also include Ingo Molnar's O(1) scheduler, assuming I can=20
get it to play nice with the preempt patch.  Last time I tried=20
that, it caused my kernel to crap all over the place. =3D(

--
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does=20
it still cost four figures to fix?"