FTP site and source code availability?
dlev89
1. Where's the FTP site where the packages are hosted? The website
doesn't give any links to it, and attempts to get to it by messing
around with the URL get me permission denied errors. Surely the site
is accessible?
2. Assuming the FTP site is accessible, is the source code for
packages (or at least, for Kwort-specific packages) hosted there?
(I'm kind of hoping that this distro, if not GPL compliant, at least
makes the code for its own programs available.)
David B. Cortarello
You can ask questions as you might have, and I love answering users
questions. But you can't be this aggressive as I'm doing all this and
giving it to the community for free, putting all my effort and time of
my own. So please, have a little respect to me and to the project.
See this as the way you should behave in a mailing list from now on,
as no one likes to answer questions when it is being attacked
I'm answering your questions now:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:13 AM, dlev89 <dle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Two questions about Kwort:
>
> 1. Where's the FTP site where the packages are hosted? The website
> doesn't give any links to it, and attempts to get to it by messing
> around with the URL get me permission denied errors. Surely the site
> is accessible?
What packages do you want, at the moment all packages are distributed
in the iso image. Mirrors for extra packages will be available
whenever is posible as we are looking forward for a better and more
reliable packages server.
> 2. Assuming the FTP site is accessible, is the source code for
> packages (or at least, for Kwort-specific packages) hosted there?
Packages are distributed by their projects. You can get the sourcecode
of packages that does distribute source, like for example xfce source
code from their website, also transmission, pidgin, etc. Not for
example macromedia flash, as it is not open source.
> (I'm kind of hoping that this distro, if not GPL compliant, at least
> makes the code for its own programs available.)
Programs made by me are distributed as source code, all kwtools are
scripts (kpkg - /usr/sbin/kpkg -, kwort-network-manager -
/usr/share/kwort/knm - , kwort-user-manager - /usr/share/kwort/kum -,
kwort-init-scripts - /etc/rc.d, /sbin/service -, etc). So you can
easily open those files with your preffered editor and see the source
code. Also, those are available at github.com:
http://github.com/nomius/kwtools/tree/master
ktsuss is also developed by me and it is available also from github
too: http://github.com/nomius/ktsuss/tree/master
Announces about kwtools, ktsuss, and other tools (not distributed in
Kwort) like nqqueue are in my personal weblog:
http://nomius.blogspot.com
If you want to know how I built all packages I built in Kwort, you can
see in the builders directory in the ISO image for every BUILDER
script. Packages that are not built by me (distributed by slackware)
are available at slackware website as in slackware iso.
Have a nice day.
--
David B. Cortarello
Weblog: http://nomius.blogspot.com
Kwort Linux: http://www.kwort.org