Fedora Package Status

[Mike Barnes]

I've knocked up a quick web page to give a bit of an overview of how
the Fedora Core build is progressing.

http://receptacle.org/fedora-alpha/package.php

It's live updating off a couple of FTP sites, so please don't hammer
it too hard. Spare my bandwidth. :)

It has a few little glitches, but it's good enough for a bit of a
general overview of how it's going. If any Regex gurus could suggest a
neat way to break down RPM file names into package name and version,
I'd love them forever.

Please note again that THERE IS NO INSTALL PROCESS right now, aside
from manually upgrading RPMs, breaking things, booting from rescue
CDs, patching things up, and then carrying on. It is possible, but not
for the timid - and certainly not if you need your Alpha for anything
important. Most packages have hardly been tested, and there are some
quite shaky bits, but so far it is holding together pretty well.
Better than I expected, anyway.

Thanks for the emails so far - it's reassuring to see some interest in this.