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Website content and code for rexify.org
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Packaging deprecation and installation updates #121

Closed ferki closed 5 years ago

ferki commented 5 years ago

This is a PR towards fixing both #104 and #116. These two doesn't really makes sense without each other, so let's collect the related changes here and then merge them together.

I'll remove the draft status when I consider it to be ready, but I'm still sharing it early so it's possible to take a look ahead of time.

ferki commented 5 years ago

@ehuelsmann @krimdomu: I think I'm ready with preparing the related changes, so I'd like to get your feedback on it.

One think I noticed, is CentOS and SuSE doesn't seem to have Rex packages in their own main repos.

@krimdomu: would you like to keep building packages for those and sending them to their upstream? If yes, I can reword the "Get Rex" page to list those as community repos.

ferki commented 5 years ago

Hmm, I'm considering to replace the list of operating systems with packages to simply point to repology: https://repology.org/project/rex/versions

That would be automatically kept up-to-date, and probably would always be a more complete list than what we would compile on our own manually.

ferki commented 5 years ago

I've reworded the instructions to:

The CentOS and (open)SuSE packages on rex.linux-files.org are old/unmaintained (latest package is rex-1.4.1 from 2016-07-16), and/or built for an OS version that is EOL since then (except for CentOS 7, but then again that is the now 3 years old rex-1.4.1). In any case, it would be easy to point to them later, if needed.

@ehuelsmann @krimdomu: please review the content, and mark the PR either approved or request changes. I'll handle merging and deployment (=I'd like to update the timestamp of the announcement right before merging).

ferki commented 5 years ago

Thanks @krimdomu and @ehuelsmann for the feedback! :+1: I'll refine the wording of the bits mentioned above, put a fresh timestamp on it, and then merge.

ferki commented 5 years ago

@krimdomu @ehuelsmann : many thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you both agree with the content! I've addressed all the remarks, updated the timestamp, and will deploy the announcement soon.