[gobolinux-users] A few uneasy questions...

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/2/27, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org>:
> On 2/27/07, pp_o2 <pp_o2 at o2.pl> wrote:
> > Ad 1)
> > a) where is cron?
>
> It can't remember why we took it off. I remember some talk on cron
> alternatives, but I don't know why we didn't end shipping one. Users
> should invoke Compile/InstallPackage to install their own for now (I
> haven't checked the store to see if there is a recipe for that).
>
At least there's a recipe for dcron.

> > b) why some contrib repositories from Wiki page
> >     http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=packages
> > are empty?
> >
> > c) why two "official" sites have different contents:
> >     http://gobo.calica.com/packages/official/
> > versus
> >     http://www.midgard.liu.se/~n02jonka/gobolinux/packages/official/
> > example: Vorbis-Tools
>
> It looks like we had synchronization problems. At least Jonas is
> already aware of this problem with his mirror at midgard.liu.se, as he
> just told me on IRC. Is there problems with other mirrors, too?
> Calica.com should be fine.
>
As mentioned my mirror was out of sync, but that should be fiexed by
now (or at least withing the next half an hour, as it's downloading
packages to get in sync). It was also why I had packages in the
contrib store, while the other didn't. Thanks for making me aware of
this.

As for no packages in the contrib store, there's a simple answer: no
packages have been submitted yet, that are compatible with the new
version of glibc that's shipped with GoboLinux 013. For those that
still use the old glibc (2.3.x) the packages can be found in the
"packages.old" directory on the mirrors.

> > I wonder if someone could put the resource links (recipe and package) IN ONE
> > PLACE (one page) and clean up the little mess with the repositories.
> > Yes, from my perspective of fresh GoboLinux user _it is a mess_ however small!
>
> We do that, and then mirrors take these changes through rsync. Again,
> due to some problem that was not happening. I'm not able to check out
> all mirrors right now, but I'd appreciate if someone else could take
> the time to check which mirrors are broken, etc.
>
> > d) why remarks on wiki page
> >     http://gobo.kundor.org/wiki/GenRecipeStore
> > lead to older version of Compile package 1.7.1 which contains GenRecipeStore
> > but Compile 1.8.2 does not? I run the script and I got following statements:
> > root at tytan /Files/Compile]GenRecipeStore
> > mkdir: `': No such file or directory
> > mkdir: `': No such file or directory
> > GenRecipeStore: Unable to create
>
> This script has been replaced by PackRecipe instead, which is
> automatically called every time a new recipe is compiled. The
> documentation is probably out of date because there isn't too much
> people contributing to the wiki. We're really very bad on the number
> of active people doing some real work. Sad but true.
>
Maybe we should have a wiki drive soon again?

> > I've come here to salient point - why GoboLinux has such small
> > user/contribution base? Despite the very good idea which brought GoboLinux
> > into day light.
>
> I don't know. Sometimes I think people are just lazy, or aren't really
> very commited on helping, or just don't have enough time/interest to
> dedicate to this project.
>
One of the problems I see is that GoboLinux looks like a userfriendly
distribution, as it has a directory tree that's easy to understand to
people not used to *nix. However GoboLinux is closer to Linux From
Scratch, which is a hardcore linux "distro". At the same time many
hardcore users have a hard time gettin along with a distro not using
fhs. THerefore the target group is missed and many users we get become
disapointed that GoboLinux is so imature/hard to learn.

-- 
/Jonas