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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:32:19AM +0200, Unet wrote:
> Hello fellow sourcemagers !
> 
> Just a quick note to let you know we have finally set up a 100MBit
> sourcemage mirror @work :
> 
> ftp://sourcemage.ac-dijon.fr
> 
> It has codex, sorcery and isos, rsyncing each night (CET).

That's great.  Now if only it had something to sync to again, we'd be 
happy and whole. :)

> 
> We are working on a specific project for Eole [1] (sorry french only), a
> set of linux server distributions widely used in the french
> administration [2], and are planning to base our next version on
> sourcemage as the core system. 
> 
> Needless to say, there are some adaptations that needs to be done !
> Anyone interested in what we're doing please contact me, and I'll
> explain you what technologies we plan to use. We need volunteers, and I
> believe this can be a _very_ important project, establishing sourcemage
> as the "very first linux metadistribution"(tm) :) !

That's excellent news.  Our philosophy of keeping all our tools open to 
the public may finally be paying off.  I'm sure our latest advances, 
reworkings, ideas, and goals in binary package management will be 
fruitful in this project.

It has been done before with the binery spell (yes it's spelled that way 
too) that Casey Harkins contributed.  Unfortunately, since it's marked 
WIP, it seems to have stuck in devel grimoire:

http://perforce.smee.org:8080/@@//sgl/grimoires/devel/smgl/binery/

the script itself:

http://perforce.smee.org:8080/@@//sgl/grimoires/devel/smgl/binery/binery

of course, he was only working with 16 laptops, not thousands of 
servers.

I'd be glad to help coordinate and develop some increased binary 
metadistrbution capabilities.

Seth

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