Introduction

Welcome to the home of Caixa Mágica Linux development.

If you're looking for the main Caixa Mágica website you can find it ​here.

The process consists of:

• Caixa Magica Packages development & building
• Installer / Configurator development
• Upstream projects packaging - check ​Contribware

Since 2000 and until CM 11, Caixa Mágica had developed the installer / configurator (lucas/licas/xLucas/xLicas) from scratch and shared the base with SuSE.

The new versions share Mandriva framework (Installer and Configurator and core RPMs). It is not entirely the same code since we are committed to core technologies that are not in Mandriva roadmap like Apt,.... Read the LetterToTheCommunity about the moving to Mandriva (portuguese).

Although there are several CM payed developers in the development process but it has always being open to contributions.

Development process

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Sources

There are three mais sources for the Caixa Mágica Linux Distribution:

• Upstream repositories - Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc.;
• Our own SVN (subversion) repository;
• Unnoficial contributions made through ​Contribware

BuildSystem

The build system has two main steps:

• Check the sources for updates, and either places the updates on the testing repository directly, or sends the sources to our SVN (subversion) repository;
• Packages updated in our SVN (subversion) repository, or sent as contributions via ​Contribware are automaticaly built on our ​BuildFarm.

Repositories

Packages either directly from upstream, or built in our ​BuildFarm are added to the testing repositories, and after testing are moved to the ​final, publicly available repository

Summer Internships

• SummerInternships 2011
• SummerInternships 2010
• SummerInternships 2009
• SummerInternships 2008

Misc

• Ideias a desenvolver para integração na Caixa Mágica

Deprecated

• Old development process
• Old versions