On 06/02/2013 03:05 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, June 02, 2013 22:52:59 Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 14:20 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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Create a bug report for it. I don't think that Walter realizes what's
standard. And this whole problem probably stems from the fact that he
can't
put symlinks in the zip file that he generates, so he was talking about
making it up to the maintainers to create the various symlinks, which
IMHO is unacceptable long term, but it seems to require either changing
the main release from a zip to something like 7zip or breaking it up per
OS like a number of people have been asking for for ages. Regardless, the
fact that the installer and rpm and whatnot are broken is unacceptable.
Not being able to put symlinks in a zipfile has nothing to do with
getting deb files and RPM files correct since they should be built from
tarballs.
Sounds like the system for creating distributions is broken.
It's done entirely by Walter on his own systems, and I suspect that the deb
and rpm files are created from the zip file (though I'm not sure if he creates
those or someone else does). We need to change it so that the process for
generating them is automated and does not rely on Walter. Work is being done
in that area, but it does not appear to be a priority for Walter.
- Jonathan M Davis
I thought the packages were generated using the scripts at
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/tree/master/linux
which pull the zip files from ftp.digitalmars.com
What would an automated process look like? I would think something like
a script which makes a tarball out of the git repos and then some more
which turn the tarball into rpm or deb or what have you?
