[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT for 21st century

[Mark Duckworth]

There are updated rpms in there that are much more recent.  I've ported
the recent versions of many packages that are currently only built for
coldfire.  They just need rebuilt on a 68k machine.

http://storage.atari-source.org/atari/personal/coldfire_packages/

Besides gentoo mint which is further along, it's what we got and it's
what I run.

My work is with and will remain with rpm.  I'll steal patches from Alan
and give him whatever I come up with that isn't determined to be crap ;)

Thanks,
Mark



On 01/18/2017 10:52 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Currently it doesn't mean anything. It's interesting only if you plan to
> improve wiki, website or the code. RPMs are dead for good 12 years so I
> wouldn't assume any strong movements in that area. This is just a
> kernel/source code change, it's not a new distribution, release or packages.
> 
> On 19 January 2017 at 10:47, WongCK <wongck68 at yahoo.com
> <mailto:wongck68 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi ya all,
> 
>     So what does all these means?
>     RPMS from SpareMint no longer current ?
>     Must I get the most updated Kernel and RPMS from this Github ?
> 
>     rgds
>     WongCK
> 
> 
>     On Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 23:23, Mark Duckworth
>     <mduckworth at atari-source.org <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org>>
>     wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>         LOL This is *not* something I worry about.
> 
>         First the system has RAID5 and I get notified if I lose a disk
>         Second the system does daily backups to a local NAS that also
>         has backups.
>         Third git is inherently a complete copy by itself so everything
>         in the
>         repos is on my local machine.
>         Fourth I develop with two separate local machines that always
>         have the
>         latest pull.
> 
>         There are some other bits that don't go into the repos
>         themselves but I
>         don't care much about that.  I don't trust cloud services much
>         when it
>         comes to my business.  I've trusted both Amazon EC2 and Ramnode
>         because
>         I'd be silly to try to host all of that myself.  At least the
>         stuff on
>         there is compiled code and not commented source.
> 
>         Thanks,
>         Mark
> 
> 
> 
>         On 01/17/2017 05:19 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > On 18 January 2017 at 01:06, Mark Duckworth
>         <mduckworth at atari-source.org <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org>
>         > <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org
>         <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org>>> wrote:
> 
>         >
>         >    I use a local install of gitlab for private stuff (just
>         worried about
>         >    the actual security of a private github instance)  I love
>         it.  There is
>         >    basically no maintenance beyond the initial setup and it
>         just works.
>         >
>         > Call me overcautious (or lazy :-)) but this still poses a
>         threat when
>         > your server's disk dies, your IP has some trouble etc. The
>         chance that
>         > github goes down, with its hundreds of thousands repositories
>         and paid
>         > clients is much smaller.
>         >
>         > Not to mention that I have strong feeling that we would have
>         trouble
>         > finding even a volunteer what that "initial setup" (FireBee
>         guys fight
>         > with /exactly/ same kind of troubles now).
>         >
>         > --
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>         > http://mikro.atari.org <http://mikro.atari.org/>
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