On 10/10/2005, at 5:35 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a clean source tarball for AG2.4? The ones on the site all > ship with binaries which messes with the build process. Failing > that is > there a 2.4 branch in CVS (doesn't look like it)?
Steve, The 2.4 branch is cunningly disguised as r_2_3_final. A fresh source tree is pulled in by packaging/BuildSnapshot.py, which now has a -t (--tag) option to specify the desired CVS tag. After that, insert a packaging/linux/debian directory and run packaging/ BuildSnapshot.py with the --no-checkout option to build from your new tree. When the packaging/linux/debian/* files are complete (i.e. correctly build the package), they could go into CVS. Using the BuildSnapshot.py mechanism takes a bit of work to set up (adapt fedora, gentoo or slackware directories), but really saves time in the long run; as changes are made to CVS, new snapshots and point releases become trivial (sort of, mostly, sometimes,...). chris Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350 QPSF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
