On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
Now, cross compiling fink binaries would be cool too, so ppc can build the x86 packages too :-) but I guess that would be at least as hard.
I hope not! Building FAT sounds harder, because of the configure issues and inability to do platform-specific tweaks since it's just one .deb. We'll need *at least one* of cross-compilation or automated build-testing, because lots of maintainers will not have access to multiple arches.
I think we're going to really need a system for testing--not just build testing, actually testing if packages actually work too. Right now we already have some trouble since many maintainers only package and test for one dist (10.3, 10.4-trans) at a time, with multiple arches as well it's going to get worse.
Not yet sure how we'd want to set up such a system. Maybe have release managers to take charge of back-porting and forward-porting? Or maybe just a web interface where we can find other maintainers' packages that have been verified to build on our $dist-$arch so we can help them test? If we're really lucky some users will want to set up a testing team :-)
Ideas would be appreciated. Dave
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