I would love to see such a feature (distro-specific distribution
tarballs). The current build system could certainly be changed to
accomodate this (e.g., "rm -rf" the irrelevant dirs during the
dist-hook, but there would need to also be some adjustments to
configure -- perhaps better use of m4 in determining the values of
SUBDIRS and whatnot...?).
Also, I'll repeat an old mantra because I'm not sure Erich has heard me
say it -- the current build/dist/install system uses autoconf/automake
simply because that's what I knew when I wrote it. I would not be
heartbroken at all if it is revamped/rewritten/didn't use AC/AM to
better support features that we want now (e.g., distro-specific
tarballs).
On Jul 19, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Erich Focht wrote:
Hi Bernard,
On Monday 18 July 2005 00:44, Bernard Li wrote:
Along with those lines it'd be useful to modify our system for
building the
release tarballs, or create a script which creates a tarball of
_only_ the
files needed for a particular distribution. Our tarball is now almost
getting close to 300MB so it would be handy to be able to create a
tarball
for files necessary for only Fedora Core 3, for instance - I have no
need to
have files from RHEL4 unless I plan to have a hetereogenous cluster (a
functionality we don't currently support anyways).
What do you guys think?
I actually started with the restructuring of the packages/sis/distro
directory. It now clearly shows the wealth of things we support and it
is easy
to split away things you don't need.
distro/
fc2-i386
fc3-i386
mdk10-i386
rhel3-i386
rhel3-ia64
rhel3-x86_64
rhel4-i386
rhel4-ia64
rhel4-x86_64
Do you agree with this structure? This is actually independent of the
package
type (thinking about debian).
I believe this is one of the biggest advantages of OSCAR, it provides
support
for quite a few distros and architectures.
Probably the build process needs to be changed somehow to ensure that
the
SRPMs build for all architectures and that the RPMs have the latest
versions
for all distr-arch combinations.
Regards,
Erich
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