On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:48:17 -0500, Curtis Hovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I was more thinking along the lines of 'a call to investigate the technical feasibility of restarting the gpp', but yes. > Instead > of providing packages, the project could have new singular goal of > creating and maintaining sets of spec files. Well, the goal would still be to provide packages, but the mechanism would be different. > That is still a lot of > work by a good number of people. Of course. My hope is that with a 'tinderbox' for rpms builds, it would be something that might be something easier to maintain after the initial effort. > 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. Ideally, yes. > 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? It has been open for nearly a year now, I believe: http://primates.ximian.com/~thunder/bb/ We've had a system with it (gnome-build.ximian.com) basically world accessible for a while, but the effort to use it stalled out- I guess it has a bit of a learning curve. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
