On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:33:05 -0700 Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, June 03, 2013 00:38:09 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:58:29 -0700 > > > > Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 02, 2013 16:52:03 Walter Bright wrote: > > > > On 6/2/2013 2:52 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > > > > > Not being able to put symlinks in a zipfile has nothing to do > > > > > with getting deb files and RPM files correct since they > > > > > should be built from tarballs. > > > > > > > > Anyone is welcome to help out with the scripts that create deb > > > > and > > > > > > > > rpm files, which are here: > > > > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer > > > > > > Well, Nick is looking into some of that stuff. Hopefully, he'll be > > > able to sort it out. > > > > What I'm doing is zip-packaging and bootstrapping. I don't really > > know much of anything about debs, rpms and such. Apologies if I've > > mislead anyone. > > Well, it's all part of the same thing. Maybe you won't deal with the > rpms or debs explicitly, but what you're doing should enable them to > be fixed. It's splitting up the zip file and making it so that we're > distributing proper symlinks with *nix which is the key thing. > Ok. It will, naturally, be generating a non-zipped DMD release directory (just so it *can* then be zipped up), so maybe that could help the other packagers.
