Re: [MiNT] New Sparemint Site

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:31, Guillaume Déflache wrote:
> Mark Duckworth wrote:
> > Let me know what you guys think.... :)
> > 
> > Overkill?  Or do you like these features and want more.  If so, what
> > features?
> 
> Perhaps reviving Debian GNU/MiNT (http://debian-mint.nocrew.org/) would 
> be less work???  AFAIK the Debian infrastructure already provides most
> of what you intend to implement, including excellent cross-compiling
> support.
> 
> Anyway, good luck!
>     Guillaume

Yeah you might think it'd be less work, but think about it.

Right now 99% of the code will be in PHP which I excel at where apt is
in C which I'm not so good at.  Those are likely old versions of apt and
new versions may not build or may be troublesome to build.

So on top of the fact that all the work needs to be implemented in php
to get the cool sparemint site even still with debian, I have to rebuild
*every* package in sparemint... likely by hand... because all the
packages over there are pretty out of date IIRC..  The debian mint was
probably a better idea than rpm but rpm is a more universal format and I
better choice I think, even if it requires some original effort.  More
or less, debian mint goes against sparemint in a repetetive effort when
sparemint is the clear winner in usage and popularity, so we must
support rpm format then.

PS: Apt-rpm requires rpm 4.x which does not build ;-)  It depends on a
library called beecrypt which uses an assembler bit for each arch and
just happens to not have one for ours ;-)

Mark
http://portal.atari-source.com