Maurice On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Maurice de la Ferte < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Mates, > > I like give some words about PA on build.pub.meego.com and the > collaboration > with the Mer project. Some of you might have been noticed that most of the > packages hosted on build.pub.meego.com do not build anymore against MeeGo. > Well MeeGo is dead and for a while we are already building against Mer. > Please note, the 'MeeGo_1.2_OSS' repository we are still building against > is a unmaintained local binary blob of the related build.meego.com project > (Great thanks to 'lbt' for providing us this blob). > > The scope of the Mer project is to build a stable core Linux distribution > and by this many dependencies needed for Plasma Active were missing. > We temporary solved this by creating the Project:KDE:Mer_Extras OBS project > as a place for all needed build dependencies and stuff for what is not > inside > Mer. Over the time of weeks the Project:KDE:Mer_Extras grows up to 170 > packages > which is INHO to big for a single project. By this the Mer people offered > us > help to strip down our PA build dependency tree, we decided to kick all > dependencies just needed for documentation. Great thanks to 'sage' who > striped down the additional build dependencies tree below to 30 packages. > > Those additional build dependencies are part of 'CE:UX:PlasmaActive' > project > and the 'CE_UX_PlasmaActive_<architecture>' repository inside e.g. > 'Project:KDE:Devel' stands for it. In my option now is the time to cleanup > and delete unneeded stuff like outdated build repositories and projects > related to PA. Following stuff I like to delete: > > Repositories in Project:KDE:Devel > - MeeGo_1.1_Core > - Trunk > - Trunk_Testing > > Repositories in Project:KDE:Trunk:Testing > - Mer_Extras_armv6l > - Mer_Extras_armv7hl > - Mer_Extras_armv7l > - Mer_Extras_i586 > > If we need in future additional 'build' dependencies we should add them > first > into our Project:KDE:Devel project and after success we should send a > submitrequest for the related package to 'CE:UX:PlasmaActive'. > > Cheers > > Maurice > > _______________________________________________ > Active mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active >
