Re: [Fedora-packaging] Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-29 Thread Gerald B. Cox
Thanks Kevin, I'm working on a draft to add submodule examples to the guidelines. That was helpful. I appreciate you taking the time to post. On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git. The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule files. I just generated a separate package for the submodule and added it as a Source1 (which is

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-21 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Gerald B. Cox gb...@bzb.us wrote: I'll also post here first for comment before I spin their wheels. Here is the URL for my changes to the SourceURL guideline. I'm interested in comments before I submit to FPC. Thanks!

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-17 Thread Tomas Hozza
On 13.06.2015 04:33, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git. The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule files. I've done some searching on this, and haven't really come up with much.

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git.  The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule files. My projects copy around some code to recursively archive.

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: Maybe this is a GitHub-specific problem. If the submodule files are not present in the archive, then archive cannot be intended to be used I searched and found many people were complaining about it a few years

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-17 Thread Sérgio Basto
Hi, On Qua, 2015-06-17 at 12:43 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, at 10:33 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git. The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-17 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: My projects copy around some code to recursively archive. Thanks Colin, I'll take a look. I plan on documenting all the various working methods that come up in this thread and submitting them to FPC for their

Re: Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 09:24 +0200, Tomas Hozza wrote: I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git. The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule files. Maybe this is a GitHub-specific problem. If the

Packaging Guidelines for Applications using Git Submodules

2015-06-12 Thread Gerald B. Cox
I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle the situation where a project decides to use submodules in Git. The archive generated doesn't incorporate the submodule files. I've done some searching on this, and haven't really come up with much. I've reviewed: Packaging:Github