On Wednesday 03 September 2003 15:06, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >
[snipped] > > But it still doesn't change the fact that needlessly adding releases > makes life more difficult. > > Making a macro to detect the distro is the trivial part, ensuring the > package builds correclty on all the releases is what takes the time. > > So, submit a spec file that makes provision for slightly different > configurations (such as Mandrake 8.1's kernel update had acl support, > but no acl/attr libraries, so maybe 8.1.1 should have acl support but no > nss_wins/winbind support, maybe by 9.2.1 samba3 will be stable, so it > can build as the system samba and we won't need alternatives anymore, Hey I understand this, but if I was maintaining a a package I'd prefer to have 9.2, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3 than 9.2 with any multitudinous combination of security and system updates installed. > while we still need them on 9.2, but we still want people to be able to > build samba on 9.1 with alternatives if they really want to). Then, you > still need to test all these packages on all the releases (if you even > have enough machines/disk space/buildroots to build them all), and most > likely will need to fix a few things. Also, we have largely ignored > feature conditionals (anitvirus support on samba for example). > Yes, its heap of work; I spend all day every day doing it. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
