Re: Countdown for libgii 0.8 and libggi 2beta release

[Christoph Egger]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Brian S. Julin writes:
>  > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Christoph Egger wrote:
>  > > Now I have two source tarballs (libgii and libggi).
>  > > 
>  > > I have called them as libgii_0.8.src.tar.bz2 and
>  > > libggi_2.0b4.src.tar.bz2.
>  > > 
>  > > Is the filename ok or is it somehow confusing?
>  > > 
>  > > I start creating two binary tarballs for Linux/i386.
>  > > 
>  > > Brian: Would you like to create binary tarballs for Linux/Alpha?
>  > 
>  > How do you want binary tarballs -- should I just build in a separate
>  > directory and give them essentially a tree full of .libs directories
>  > and makefiles?  Binary tarballs make me nervous, but I guess I'm the
>  > one with the Alpha.
> 
> I suggest install everything in /usr/local as usual then
> make a tarball with everything that got installed from /
> 
> something like:
> 
> cd /usr/local; find . -cmin -10 > /tmp/files;
> prepend /usr/local to every filename, strip the directories out then 
> cd /
> tar cvfz pack.tgz -T /tmp/files

This is a very good idea. It's better than just having a tree full of
.libs and makefiles.


Eric: Have you already received my tarballs? Are you happy with them?

If yes, then I suggest, that everyone should use these tarballs for
building any binary packages in order to make sure, that each package
contains the same source.


CU,

Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]