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12 Replies Last post: Feb 12, 2008 7:29 AM by jonh_tomas

CNR for Fedora

Jan 6, 2008 7:32 AM

Click to view jeff22151's profile jeff22151 1 posts since
Jan 6, 2008
Is CNR ever going to be set up for Fedora??? I see that it was out that this was going to happen soon in January of 2007 later in the year. Here we are 1 year later after that came out and it's still not set up!
Click to view Dr.Jones's profile Dr.Jones 237 posts since
Nov 15, 2007
1. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 6, 2008 7:58 AM
CNR became available for Debian distributions (Freespire, Linspire, Ubuntu) in 2007, but .rpm distributions were always on the long-range plan, but still in the plan...
Click to view jonh_tomas's profile jonh_tomas 11 posts since
Jan 22, 2008
2. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 22, 2008 4:06 AM
in response to: Dr.Jones
What else can I say... I completely agree with jeff22151... You really are taking too long... however I'm a Opensuse user and not Fedora...


Everything around CNR seems moving like a snail (has i said before!) starting with the portal that took ages to get out of Alpha (and now more a few ages to get the final version) and ending up with the CNR Plug In, that seems frozen forever... This really is a great idea... but you're taking too long to implement it... soon there will be alternatives and so long to the dream of having one installation method for every Linux distro...


if this six distros are taking this long... it's better no one think about other distros in the next 10 years...


And Jeff... for what i know the next distro to be supported is going to be Debian because it shares the same file types... only then we will have .rpm based distros supported... sad but true... and think for a minute... if they're taking this long within the same extension... think how much time they will take to move to an .rpm based distro... :(


However this is just the rumors i heard, because they don't speak much of their plans or scheduels... you can came here tomorow and find out that all the distros (or the one you want) are supported, you never know...

Click to view Dr.Jones's profile Dr.Jones 237 posts since
Nov 15, 2007
3. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 22, 2008 2:26 PM
in response to: jonh_tomas
Starting with Debian distributions was the logical choice (especially the ubuntu derivatives due to commonality) given the history..rpm packages became a more difficult nut to crack, but not impossible :)...
Click to view jonh_tomas's profile jonh_tomas 11 posts since
Jan 22, 2008
4. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 23, 2008 8:20 AM
in response to: Dr.Jones

So... can users expect to have an OpenSuse CNR plug-in ready by the time of the opensuse 11 release (or at least will we have it in 2008???)??? can you tell us anything??? or is it some kind of confidential stuff???


Thanks for your reply :) (i wasn't expecting it)


John

Click to view Dr.Jones's profile Dr.Jones 237 posts since
Nov 15, 2007
5. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 23, 2008 9:09 AM
in response to: jonh_tomas
jonh_tomas wrote:

So... can users expect to have an OpenSuse CNR plug-in ready by the time of the opensuse 11 release (or at least will we have it in 2008???)??? can you tell us anything??? or is it some kind of confidential stuff???
Will ask the question...
Click to view jonh_tomas's profile jonh_tomas 11 posts since
Jan 22, 2008
6. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 23, 2008 9:19 AM
in response to: Dr.Jones
I thought you were directly related to the project... sorry if you're not :S
Click to view Dr.Jones's profile Dr.Jones 237 posts since
Nov 15, 2007
7. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 23, 2008 9:55 AM
in response to: jonh_tomas
The Dr.'s not a developer :)...
Click to view jonh_tomas's profile jonh_tomas 11 posts since
Jan 22, 2008
8. Re: CNR for Fedora Jan 24, 2008 6:23 AM
in response to: Dr.Jones

Ok, my mistake :) Sorry ;)


anyway, i think there should be at least a calendar... this way we could be expecting something around a specific date...and it didn't have to be the exact date...


But maybe that's just me...

Click to view BigDawg's profile BigDawg 64 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
9. Re: CNR for Fedora Feb 7, 2008 9:40 AM
in response to: jonh_tomas

For the record, Debian isn't a slam dunk because Ubuntu has violated the package versioning policy. They have taken Debian packages, made changes and not updated the version number, so a Debian user moving to Ubuntu might find themselves installing a file that doesn't match the md5 sum or the dependencies they thought it would. The result would be that the affected application would suddenly seg fault without an explanation as to what really happened. We will have to segregate Debian from Ubuntu to make sure software downloaded from CNR won't cause this problem.


To the question of when will we have RPM support, I will say this. What we are doing is in no way a trivial under taking and we do have limited resoruces unlike the bigger companies like Novell, RedHat, and Ubuntu. I am sorry its taking so long, I wish it were otherwise.

Click to view jonh_tomas's profile jonh_tomas 11 posts since
Jan 22, 2008
10. Re: CNR for Fedora Feb 8, 2008 3:38 AM
in response to: BigDawg

I see... I'm sorry for what i said... I really though that Linspire/CNR, at this time, was a little "bigger"...


anyway... the next step is Debian, can you please tell us wich distro will follow it? If you don't know it yet... It's OK :)


Thanks anyway for your reply :)

Click to view BigDawg's profile BigDawg 64 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
11. Re: CNR for Fedora Feb 8, 2008 6:23 AM
in response to: jonh_tomas

We are having discussions with several OS vendors for various platforms, but at this time I can't say with certainty which will be next. I wish I had a better answer for you.


Thanks for your patience, btw. I know its hard to have to wait.

Click to view jonh_tomas's profile jonh_tomas 11 posts since
Jan 22, 2008
12. Re: CNR for Fedora Feb 12, 2008 7:29 AM
in response to: BigDawg
Well... if you would choose based on how many users each distro has it would be evident...

However, i know, that it's not only that that counts...


Has to wait... well you don't have to thank me... but I must admit... it's been very hard to see SUCH A GOOD IDEA / SOFTWARE available for other distros and not for the one I use... :'( I'm really very impatient to get my hands on the SuSE version of CNR...


Anyway, it's me that has to thank you for your replies...


But, since i'm boring you already, if there is anylink where i can know about schedules and other news, could you let it here?


Thank you soo much