Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-12 Thread Stuart Children
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 20:53, Kim Woelders wrote: > > 1) Are the release numbers (after the version numbers) in the > > *tarballs* going to stay or are they just there for the pre-releases? > > If they are staying then the Source URLs in the spec files need > > correcting further to include them. >

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-12 Thread Kim Woelders
Stuart Children wrote: OK, attached is an updated patch incorporating all comments. Thanks, I'll commit it asap. Two questions (the patch can go in regardless): 1) Are the release numbers (after the version numbers) in the *tarballs* going to stay or are they just there for the pre-releases? If t

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-11 Thread Stuart Children
OK, attached is an updated patch incorporating all comments. Two questions (the patch can go in regardless): 1) Are the release numbers (after the version numbers) in the *tarballs* going to stay or are they just there for the pre-releases? If they are staying then the Source URLs in the spec file

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-08 Thread Stuart Children
Hey On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 14:17, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Saturday, 08 May 2004, at 10:19:24 (+0200), > Kim Woelders wrote: > > > I'm not very experienced with rpm packaging. I was hoping Michael > > would have an opinion on this. > > Sorry, I've been super busy. I've only been able to skim

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-08 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:49:11AM +0100, Stuart Children wrote: > > Definitely agreed. The spec file in CVS, and so in RPMs offered for > download, should be as distro agnostic as possible. Where there are > differences it should default to anything specified in the LSB, or > otherwise to the

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-08 Thread Michael Jennings
On Saturday, 08 May 2004, at 10:19:24 (+0200), Kim Woelders wrote: > I'm not very experienced with rpm packaging. I was hoping Michael > would have an opinion on this. Sorry, I've been super busy. I've only been able to skim e-mails, and I seem to have missed this one. :( > OK, It seems that "V

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-08 Thread Kim Woelders
I'm not very experienced with rpm packaging. I was hoping Michael would have an opinion on this. Stuart Children wrote: a) Is there a reason name, version, and release were being set with %define rather than just setting the tags themselves? The cvs log doesn't offer any clues that I could spot.

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-07 Thread Stuart Children
Hi Nathan Ingersoll wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:38:34PM -0400, Michael Jennings wrote: Not trying to be pedantic here, but for the sake of clarity, RPM's are not distro-specific, exactly. The RPM's as I do them are as distro-agnostic as they can be, in fact. But they do require certain ve

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-05 Thread Stuart Children
An earlier (different) email seems to have got stuck in the moderation queue for some reason - I hope this one doesn't. Stuart Children wrote: I do have some improvements to the current spec file which are generic - I'll post a patch against CVS later today. Unified diff attached. Some explanati

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-05 Thread Stuart Children
Hi Kim Kim Woelders wrote: Stuart Children wrote: Is anyone looking at getting involved with Fedora package submission? [snip] I'm pretty sure nobody else is doing this, so by all means go ahead. Oklydok. What are the Fedora specific issues in the spec files? Currently there are none I'm aware o

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-04 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:38:34PM -0400, Michael Jennings wrote: > > Not trying to be pedantic here, but for the sake of clarity, RPM's are > not distro-specific, exactly. The RPM's as I do them are as > distro-agnostic as they can be, in fact. But they do require certain > versions of certain

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-04 Thread Ben Ford
Ben Rockwood wrote: BTW, this remeinds me, it would still kick ass to have an E KNOPPIX CD. If someone wants to take that on, it'd be awsome! I'm working on a Knoppix CD customized for my CS department*. When I get some time over the summer, I'll cut an E specific CD. Any requests other th

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-04 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tuesday, 04 May 2004, at 03:19:03 (-0700), Ben Rockwood wrote: > Okey, noted. I've not used an RPM based system in ages, so RPMs > look like RPMs to me. I'll note in the future that they are distro > specific. Not trying to be pedantic here, but for the sake of clarity, RPM's are not distro-

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-04 Thread Kim Woelders
Stuart Children wrote: Is anyone looking at getting involved with Fedora package submission? I've been meaning to volunteer for this for ages (I'm already building my own packages of DR16.6). This is not just fixing up the spec files/patches for anything Fedora specific and building the things, but

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Kim Woelders wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: kwo is cutting Linux RPMs. Well, I have supplied only the RH9 RPM's. Michael did the others. Linux RPM's (x86) are not just that. At least for DR16.6 with imlib1 I got the impression that E had to be compiled/packaged differently for just about every dist

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-03 Thread Kim Woelders
Ben Rockwood wrote: kwo is cutting Linux RPMs. Well, I have supplied only the RH9 RPM's. Michael did the others. Linux RPM's (x86) are not just that. At least for DR16.6 with imlib1 I got the impression that E had to be compiled/packaged differently for just about every distribution. Anyway, I'd

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-03 Thread Stuart Children
Hiyas Long time user and lurker (here and on IRC as StuartC). On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:16, Ben Rockwood wrote: > I'm planning on providing Solaris builds in PKG format. DR16.7 is fine > under GCC right now, but I'm working out some problems under Forte for > an optomized build. I should be ab

Re: [E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-01 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote: > > OSX is a possible platform, but there isn't too much point since it's > nested, so I suppose it'd only be nifty for PR/novelty value. Rather pointless unless we find someone running running it with X only and not the Mac OS X GUI.

[E-devel] DR16.7 Ports and Packages

2004-05-01 Thread Ben Rockwood
Since DR16.7 is in pre, it's time to talk ports. I'm planning on providing Solaris builds in PKG format. DR16.7 is fine under GCC right now, but I'm working out some problems under Forte for an optomized build. Looks like both Nick and Guillaume have SGI. I just aquired an Indigo2 for porti