Le dimanche 15 avril, Keshav Kini a écrit: > Martin Albrecht <martinralbre...@googlemail.com> writes: > > 2) unpacks upstream sources (perhaps even as indicated in a file > > tracked by the repository) > > Downloading and unpacking upstream sources from a remote location > indicated in a file tracked by the repository is very good idea, IMO. > In fact I hope eventually at least this procedure becomes standard, > even incorporated into `sage-pkg`. We shouldn't trust people not to > screw up the src/ directory :) This will avoid ugly issues like us > shipping subtly modified src/ directories, or *tracking* the src/ > directories (as I notice four of our SPKGs - genus2reduction, mpfi, > ratpoints, and cephes - currently do), etc.
I suggest checking the "Debian New maintainers' Guide"? Managing thousands of packages, with upstream sources and local patches, to make things work on many architectures... There is no need to invent from scratch what is already there. Snark PS: of course, I guess there is also some documentation for gentoo, for redhat, for pkgsrc, for... -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
