On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Romain Beauxis<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi ! > > Le lundi 27 juillet 2009 22:29:12, Chris Everest a écrit : >> So i started looking into building a Fedora RPM of liquidsoap. > > Thanks for this work, this is a great news ! > >> I keep >> finding myself compiling (yuk) and have even resorted to running >> virtual Ubuntu instances, to make the liquidsoap install less painful. >> So here's my question: >> >> 1.) Do I need to split out lame dependencies (et al non-free library >> dependencies) to have this RPM distributed by the liquidsoap project? > > Clearly no. The stable and daily build packages are built directly from the > full set of dependencies without individual packages. > > The problem can be for external dependencies like ocaml-pcre if they are not > packaged for Fedora. > > In any way, you can distribute a binary package of liquidsoap without the need > to also package the external dependencies that we ship. > >> 2.) Maybe Axel from atrpms would dist? Or rpm fusion. I don't know >> how those orgs operate. > > I don't know. For reaching the most users as possible, it is always better to > distribute the packages there and not in the project's website. > I don't know how these sites work, though. In particular, you'd probably have > to also package the dependencies in this case. >
Fedora has some existing conflicts in ocaml-pcre with atrpms and the fedora repos, so I have some sleuth work to do. However, I have been able to compile successfully on a routine basis, so we'll see what happens. -- Chris Everest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
