On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> If there's a pressing reason for someone to use non-standard ownership,
>> they're free to modify the spec file and rebuild for their local use.
>> [...]
>
>Oh, yes, indeed. Thanks for the hint, Bill. I've totally overlooked
>that this is also possible here -- and IMHO adequate for this local
>situation. People just have to understand that for cleanness reasons we
>should not add hooks and hacks into OpenPKG to solve every non-standard
>problem.
>
>But we should at least better document or automate the process of
>performing local changes and maintaining them. Perhaps if it is more
>straight-forward and easy for local admins to apply and maintain their
>local adjustments their life would be easier and the pressure onto us
>for including those hacks is reduced, too. So, we perhaps should provide
>a Wiki page or whatever which shows the local admin how to use Anon-CVS
>for checking out the sources, rolling their own adjusted packages and
>maintaining their changes by stepping from release to release via "cvs
>up -rOPENPKG_X_Y_SOLID" and merging potential conflicts.
One thing I've done is to make notes on various packages which include
those things that I've modified for our local use, and have these available
on our libertysoft.org web site. I put these up as much for my own use
since they help me remember what I've done and why.
http://www.libertysoft.org/openpkg/
Bill
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