Welcome to the forum, and the story so far ...

[Ole Andre rodlie]

Hi, and welcome to DracoLinux's forum. A place for discussion and
support. I know this distro has been more or less abandoned for a couple
of years, my bad. I've been very busy with my private life and work, I
also moved to Windows as my primary workstation back in 2010, and became
a "regular user" primary doing graphics and various programming stuff.
After two years gone from the Linux "scene" I got the itch again, and I
wanted to bring Linux back to my computers (some of them at least). I
started maintaining a build server early this year, building pkgsrc
packages for Draco 0.3.x. But as time went by more and more packages
broke, and I knew I had to actually start building DracoLinux again...

Next version up is DracoLinux 3.4. I opened the svn repo today, so don't
expect a release any time soon, maybe a beta in October.

Old posts in this forum has been deleted, let's start fresh.

I will work on this project in my spare time, mostly weekends.

Regards

Ole Andre Rodlie
ol...@dracolinux.org

[Blair Sadewitz]

I'm delighted to hear that you're still working on this project.  I'm a registered pkgsrc developer <b...@netbsd.org> (though I haven't committed to the tree in years, but I work with it often).

If you need any help, please let me know.

Regards,

--Blair

[olear]

Thanks for your support (sorry for not approving your post, the "new" Google Groups UI is confusing).

My primary goals is to be as compatible with pkgsrc as possible, any help and/or tips is welcome. My focus this month is to get Draco 0.4 up and running, I will then concentrate on getting a high build count in pkgsrc.

- Ole

[Blair Sadewitz]

Oh, being compatible with pkgsrc should be the easy part, assuming we have concordance amongst groups of developers. ;-)

A primary goal should be to be as compatible wtih pkgsrc as possible--that is, building around it.  You've seen SmartOS by Joyent, right?  That has to be the most impressive pkgsrc job yet.  Perhaps there's some infrastructure we can steal from them. ;-)  

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[olear]

Have not seen SmartOS, will check it out.

Example of pkgsrc in Draco: http://pkgstat.dracolinux.org/20121009.2211/report.html (not good, not one DE will build anymore without major patches from me).

-Ole