On Yaum al-Ahad 23 Jumaada al-Awal 1425 08:30 am, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote: > Munzir Taha wrote: > > Elzubeir, may be you are familiar with debian's inconvienient
This just to let me hear your coughing ;) > I find it rather suitable actually -- but some distro's prefer > convenience over quality *cough*remindsmeofwindows*cough* ;) > > > multi-files source packages. In rpm-based distros, the srpm contains > > the spec file inside it so every one can download it to get the spec > > file. easy? Besides you can have more than one patch in srpms not like > > in Debian ;) > > Yes, but what does that have to do with what I have asked? As a courtesy to > the upstream author of any package, I would let that author know that I am > packaging his/her project and provide him/her with the source of the > packaging file(s). This is not really just an Arabeyes thing, but a general > thing. > In the future, when you want to package it, you simply checkout what's in > CVS and you go -- be it a one file spec or a collection of scripts and > files. It's also nice for the upstream author to be able to tell the rest > of the world whether his/her package is available in a given distro's > repository or else provide the package for download (if available). Sure. Everyone should do this. But why do you emphasize this piece of info for me. Do you think I haven't reported my packages to kacst, pablo, Prof Klaus and nadim? Every package I have made was reported in more than one occasion but the upstream author is free to grab it or ignore it, I can't help here. I can google the threads for you if this what you mean! -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of the Open Arabic Bugs Project at http://wiki.arabeyes.org/OpenBugs CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
