D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Monday, May 07, 2012, Andy wrote: > >> Hi, I'm in the process of packaging rosegarden 11.11.42 for Redhat EL6 and >> clones (Centos 6, Scientific Linux 6) but whilst doing so I have been >> looking at how other distros did it and found a major discrepancy among >> them. > > I'm in the middle of putting the 12.04 release out the door, so you might > want > to wait just a little bit. It should be out within a few hours. > >> I found that OpenSuse, Mandriva, Mageia include those sub-dirs, while >> Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora don't include them. > > This is pretty much between you and your packaging gods. > > The way Rosegarden is designed, if you compile a stock tarball, all the data > files (translations, example files, icons, etc.) are bundled into the > rosegarden binary, and those of them that need to be on a disk somewhere (eg. > example files) are unpacked to the user's home directory at runtime.[...]
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I have released the 11.11.42 package for now as I had that ready but I will package up the brand new release as soon as possible, too. For reference my package is available in my personal repo at: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/ The repo is listed on the Centos third party repos list and on http://pkgs.org One last comment: Since RHEL 6 /Centos 6 / SL 6 are long term supported distros (up to 2020!), this means that the versions of the included libraries will remain the same for the whole life-cycle of these distros. With regards to Rosegarden that means that I will only be able to package Rosegarden for these distros as long as Rosegarden works with Qt 4.6.2. Therefore I hope you won't start requiring newer version of Qt anytime soon! That said I will only package for RHEL 6 until RHEL 7 comes out in a year or two, not until 2020, so I'm not asking you to support Qt 4.6.2 until 2020! ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
