On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 07:30 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:59:14 -0500, Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:08:33PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > > > In a nutshell, i'd like to hack jhbuild to build tarballs and rpms, > > > but that would require pulling spec files for each tarball from a > > > predictable location in CVS. > > > > I actually keep my spec file in CVS for my projects, though some > > seems to consider this "useless" if not bad practice. > > > > > It would also require someone with knowledge/experience in writing > > > spec files to volunteer to write up-to-date spec files for at least > > > some small number of modules, and get them in CVS, so that I could > > > test them, and ideally volunteer to help me with problems as they crop > > > up. > > > > Problem is to have portable spec files, all major RPM distro seems > > to have their prefered guidelines and tricks, > > Ah, yeah, I forgot to mention that. Certainly our experience at Ximian > was that you needed separate spec files per distro; I'm not sure the > best way to maintain that in CVS, but it is something I had hoped you > guys had considered.
This sounds like a call to restart the GNOME Packaging project. Instead of providing packages, the project could have new singular goal of creating and maintaining sets of spec files. That is still a lot of work by a good number of people. I'm not familiar with many packaging systems, but isn't possible to jump start this effort by collection the spec files from each distro's source packages. I recall that Ximian has a unified spec/build process that creates packages for different distros. Was there ever any thought to releasing that code? Ximian Desktop doesn't appear to be multi-distro anymore; is there a business case not to open it up? -- __C U R T I S C. H O V E Y____________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guilty of stealing everything I am. _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
