> Hi,
>
> On 02/22/2010 11:54 PM, Brandon Philips wrote:
>> On 18:24 Sat 23 Jan 2010, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> lib/
>>>> libv4l1/
>>>> libv4l2/
>>>> libv4lconvert/
>>>> utils/
>>>> v4l2-dbg
>>>> v4l2-ctl
>>>> cx18-ctl
>>>> ivtv-ctl
>>>> contrib/
>>>> test/
>>>> everything else
>>>>
>>
>> git clone git://ifup.org/philips/create-v4l-utils.git
>> cd create-v4l-utils/
>> ./convert.sh
>>
>> You should now have v4l-utils.git which should have this directory
>> struture. If we need to move other things around let me know and I can
>> tweak name-filter.sh
>>
>
> Ok, so this will give me a local tree, how do I get this onto linuxtv.org
> ?
>
> Also I need someone to pull:
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/libv4l
>
> (this only contains libv4l commits)
>
> Into the:
> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
>
> Repository, I guess I can ask this directly to Douglas?
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I've one question, I think we want to do tarbal releases
> from this new repo (just like I've been doing with libv4l for a while
> already), and then want distro's to pick up these releases, right ?
>
> Are we going to do separate tarbals for the lib and utils directories,
> or one combined tarbal. I personally vote for one combined tarbal.
>
> But this means we will be inflicting some pains on distro's because their
> libv4l packages will go away and be replaced by a new v4l-utils package.
I would call it media-utils. A nice name and it reflects that it contains
both dvb and v4l utilities.
> This is something distro's should be able to handle (it happens more
> often, and I
> know Fedora has procedures for this).
>
> An alternative would be to name the repo and the tarbals libv4l, either is
> fine
> with me (although I'm one of the distro packagers who is going to feel the
> pain
> of a package rename and as such wouldn't mind using libv4l as name for the
> repo and the new tarbals).
We never had a proper release procedure for all the utilities. It's about
time that we start with that and do proper packaging. So I'd rather make a
clean new start now instead of just patching things up.
Just my opinions, of course.
Regards.
Hans
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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