Hi Alberto, Thanks for the information, this is really useful for me to get an idea of what is involved.
I emailed Loic at thend of last week about 2.8.0 release but didnt' get a reply, so yesterday I tried loic AT debian.org and got a reply. Loic mentioned that had already pulled down the latest OSG and is looking at the 2.8.0 packaging. Robert. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Alberto Luaces <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mattias, Robert, > > El Miércoles 04 Febrero 2009ES 18:59:00 Mattias Helsing escribió: >> > In particular I'm keen to QA the packages I create, is there such a >> > tool for debian? >> >> Can't help here I'm afraid. I see that this mail didn't help much at >> all but telling you things you already know :-( So to try and help I >> mailed some questions to the ubuntu-motu developers mailing list >> asking how we can help getting osg-2.8 into ubuntu packages adn will >> persue that. For debian perhaps Alberto Luaces or someone else can >> fill us in on how the debian package is doing and if any further help >> is needed. > > Yes, I have recently offered my help for the request that made OSG's Debian > maintainer, Loic Dachary. I did it in order to help to speed up the inclusion > of newer versions faster. However I still haven't got any reply. > > Currently, the stable version of Debian is shipping with 1.2.0, testing and > unstable with 2.4.0 and finally there is an experimental package with 2.6.0. > It is said that the new stable version is going to be released sometime at > the half of this month, so we'll likely have 2.4.0 in stable and 2.6.0 in > unstable. > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openscenegraph > > Certainly those cpack-generated .deb packages are going to be very useful for > people wanting to download the latest binaries of OSG without caring about > neccesary dependencies it relies on. Maybe a small repository can be created > in OSG servers, so anybody can add it to his /etc/apt/sources.list and pull > the latest as soon as it is released. > > The bad news is that I don't think these packages can be accepted by the > distribution as is. Currently CMake .deb generator makes "binary bundles", far > different from the definition of a package in Debian. This has been discussed > a few times on CMake mailing list and chances are that it isn't to change any > time soon: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17850.html > > The Debian packaging system is built over source packages, the ones that you > can get through "apt-get source <package>" command. You can try to type > > apt-get source openscenegraph > > and inspect the files that have been extracted to your current directory. The > source packages are composed of the unmodified source distribution (that > would be the .tar.gz or .zip file that Robert releases or just an snapshot of > the SVN), a patch file with the Debian maintainer changes to add needed > versioning files, rules specifying how the software is built, fixes,... and > a .dsc file which is made of the description of the package, its build > dependencies and the digital signature from the maintainer. > > A single source package can spawn several binary packages (for libraries, > programs, plugins, debug versions, etc) and be built for several > architectures in an automatized form (see for example the bottom of > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openscenegraph) > > So that is why I think cpack packages won't pass the QA. Nevertheless, I want > to stress that I think they are still very useful, specially for distributing > newer latest versions of OSG binaries from the homepage. > > Regards, > > Alberto > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
