Kyle Gonzales wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:56:37 -0500 Kyle Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > > yay! we need packagers any time - though the real time they are needed is near > > "release" :) > > Agreed. I will be happy to do this. > > >>The problem is, I don't feel like I'm really contributing to the > >>project. I am not proficient enough with C or C++ to really contribute > >>code, tho I know enough to read tips from google, hack around makefiles, > > > > > > although thats our major need at the moment :( > > I'm trying to learn, but my "day job" is rather demanding, and doesn't > involve much coding. > > > hmm - we need people to maybe trawl the cvs commits list very regularly and turn > > coding into news articles and publicity. also comments on irc as well where > > ad-hoc discussion happens. (though this needs filtering as sometimes its just > > plain mindless bitching :) ). we have some people doing some of this but this is > > ALWAYS "the more the better" kind of work :) > > > > if this means writing articles for slashdot, newsforge, osnews or any other > > suitable online publication - thats all good! :) > > That is possible, once I have a better grasp on the system. > > > me: i make sure the .spec files in the cvs tree is correct, make sure its > > inclueded in the EXTRA_DIST of the Makefile.am then: > > > > make distcheck > > this will produce project-1.0.0.tar.gz or such a tarball - now > > sudo rpm -ta project-1.0.0.tar.gz > > > > and you SHOULD be fine... unless the .spec file is screwed or the build > > procedure is... :) > > *smacks his head* Duh! Of course! *feels dumb* > > This will make it much easier for me to test things. I will start > running thru the SPEC files, making sure they build proper packages. If > I find problems I will send patches. >
I've gone through most of the SPEC files a few weeks ago here... So don't knock yourself out if you run into something tough. A few packages need build system changes to package successfully. -- Kevin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
