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Sent: 20 July 2001 04:00
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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] packaging
Can anyone name for me a widely-used Open Source
application that
(1) is only available from CVS and (2) requires compiliation
of all of its
supporting libraries from scratch?
widely
Hi,
Paul Davis wrote:
[...]
If someone has an actual, real-world, working example of how to do all
this stuff better, bring it on. The library stuff is a total
hassle. But I've been hacking Unix systems and open source for 13 or
14 years now, and I don't see any good solutions for what is
A problem with depending on CVS is that, in my experience,
CVS seems to encourage very sloppy attitudes -- I think
I have better luck with tarballs. Apparently many developers
don't think it's a bug if the CVS version won't build, since
it's just there for developers or something -- when I
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
My experience with RPMs, a little under a year ago, was that the whole
system is basically broken. All the different RPM-based distributions
have their own versions of the same packages,
This
Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
My experience with RPMs, a little under a year ago, was that the whole
system is basically broken. All the different RPM-based distributions
have their own versions of the
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
so, no, i don't need help packaging. i need help to convince people to
(1) stop using packages and (2) to avoid RH7.X and (3) to convince
package maintainers to *never* distribute modified versions of source
available as a tarball.
Can anyone
My experience with RPMs, a little under a year ago, was that the whole
system is basically broken. All the different RPM-based distributions
have their own versions of the same packages, and it seems to be
basically a crapshoot whether a RedHat library will work with a SuSE
program... and one
Can anyone name for me a widely-used Open Source application that
(1) is only available from CVS and (2) requires compiliation of all of its
supporting libraries from scratch?
widely used is not fair. ardour is not widely used. sourceforge
contains many such projects.
also, can anyone
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
My experience with RPMs, a little under a year ago, was that the whole
system is basically broken. All the different RPM-based distributions
have their own versions of the same packages,
This is a problem of compatibility between distros.
