Thanks for your answers Miklos and Christian, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:02:09PM +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Francois Tigeot <ftig...@wolfpond.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:49:50PM +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > >> [...] > >> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ > > > > The pre-release page only lists binaries; would it be possible to add links > > to the source code tarballs for people wanting to build LO themselves ? > > Well - people who want to build LO themselves (and don't happen to be > distro-packages with a policy that requires to build from tarballs as > opposed from checking out a repository) should generally checkout LO > from git - this is easier than to fiddle with the individual tarballs.
I was just wondering why the links were not present (I knew the urls); I guess I have my answer now: tarball use is discouraged. > > As far as I know, the tree has not been tagged so the only way to get the > > exact same sources used to create theses binaries is to download a complete > > archive. > > No - every released build is from a (signed) tag. Only the > dailies/nightlies are not from a tag (obviously) > > See e.g. > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tag/?id=libreoffice-3.4.99.3 I stand corrected. Howewer, this tag doesn't appear in my freshly updated copy of the core repository. How come ? -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/