On Sunday 04 May 2003 05:34 pm, Cristiano De Michele wrote: > Hi, > I'm Cristiano De Michele and very recently I got involved > in OpenMosix(OM: http://www.openmosix.org) > project (Sourceforge ID=demichel).
Hello! This post would be much more on-topic on the Debian mentors mailing list. I'm Cc'ing this reply there, and you should really subscribe there if you are interested in completing these packages. > Linux box I use is Debian of course and actually I have Debian > SID installed. > What I noticed is that openmosix packages are really out to date > so I wonder whether these packages are orphaned or not. > I sent also an email to current maintainer some days ago > (Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) but I did not receive any reply yet. You should wait at least a couple of weeks, but it does sound like this maintainer is missing in action. > In any case I autoconf-ized userspacetools and I added to them all > needed files to build the debian packages and I built packages using > latest sources of OM from CVS. > Maybe having write permissions to OM CVS repository I'll commit > also all this work soon. I'm not quite sure what parts you mean to commit. Having the autoconf stuff in the upstream CVS is obviously a good idea, but from what I've absorbed from watching over various mailing lists, having Debian stuff in upstream CVS does more harm than good, for a variety of reasons. There are a number of different 'correct' ways of dealing with this - check the 'mentors' list archives. > Can I contribute anyhow to Debian sending my debian packages I built? > If yes, how can I do that? Start here: http://www.debian.org/devel/ You've got some reading ahead of you, but it sounds like you're already well on track. > I think it will be useful for debian community to have up to date > openmosix packages, in fact I read several people complaining about this > on OM mailing lists thanks for your attention, Indeed, this is an interesting project. Thanks for your work. I might consider using OM myself, if you do a good job of the packaging. :) Good luck! - Keegan
