Moblin 2 moves to RPM and Fedora

[Andy Green]

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Just a FYI about what we're passing on and others are taking up.


''dirk on July 25th, 2008....

With Moblin 2 (which we have talked about in the playground, but not put
out to our community, yet - which is why there’s no discussion on this
on moblin-dev) we decided to move to an rpm based distribution as that
gave us better build tools and most importantly a better way to manage
the licenses under which the individual packages are released. ...''

http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/moblin/moblin-at-oscon/


''...
In terms of Moblin, right when you (and Paul and ...) hit us with the
Reg article, Dirk Hohndel was giving a 'chalk talk' about Moblin.  Greg
DeKoenigsberg, John Poelstra, and myself went to hear and get involved
in the Q&A.  In response to Greg's question ("What can I do for you?"
handing him his business card), and the audience question about why
switching from Ubuntu to Fedora, Dirk's responses were:

* They already interface with Dave Jones and have for some time; Dirk
feels that is a solid and legitimate way to interface, as he considers
them downstream and need to push any changes back up in our direction
and in other upstreams.

* They switched to Fedora because they want to use RPMs ... so they can
build in OpenSUSE's Open Build System.  Greg took more careful mental
notes than I did about the specifics, but Dirk had some functionality
that, "Sorry, Koji does not have."

* He didn't seem to be interested in Moblin as a feature of Fedora, per
se.  He's happy to work as a downstream entirely.
...''

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00198.html

- -Andy
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