On 15/07/16 21:19, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
>> Hi. In the page http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/package , you give some
>> indications to the packagers. You want one package per component.
>>
>> That's okay but I don't understand why are you bundling every component
>> in one "big" tarball without a configure script. You could create
>> individual tarballs with the configure script generated. That would make
>> quite easy to comply with your wishes.
>>
>> Some packaging tools make pretty hard to split big tarballs in small
>> packages. Specially during the update to a new version.
>>
>> Am I missing something? :)
>>
>
> Since Gambas is maintained as a single big repository, we would need a
> script which creates multiple tars from the repository after the fact.
> The single big tarball is just how the base data is.
>
> I'm not a packager for anything, but I believe something like this should
> work, which the script would do for every new release of Gambas:
>
>   1. Download the big tar.
>   2. Do ./reconf-all to create the configure scripts in each directory.
>   3. For each component (and possibly other parts you want to have a tar
>      for) create the tar archive.
>
> Now you have your tars with a configure script inside each.
>
> Be sure to use the --dereference option to tar because some headers are
> symlinked in the source tree. You see I *believe* something like this
> would work, I don't know it. That's because there might be other gimmicks
> like the symlinked files which make it difficult to split the tree apart.
> You should play with it a little.

Thanks. I will take a look.



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