From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2007-01-17 23:44:12
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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 23:04, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> Take care that you don't open a bigger can of worms than you are prepared >> to consume. > > Consider it an additional source file script (an rpm spec file). It is a > fairly small file which drives the rpm build process. Debian has a similiar > system - the debian packaging system consists of a whole sub-directories of > files, actually. I can't see why if some Debian-savy person comes along and > want to contribute that sub-directory (4-5 files, a total of a few > kilo-bytes), they can't be accepted - you can think of it as additional > source code which aren't used in all occasions. You can think of the > required addtional files for a Debian deb build as a xscript-like system > (and of a similiar code size) on top of the existing xscript system. An rpm > spec file is a smaller thing. My point is that *I* don't want to take on the responsibility of maintaining any such script, and I especially won't answer questions relating to it, which will inevitably be posted to MinGW-users; if *you* are prepared to undertake that responsibility, for the foreseeable future, then I *may* consider hosting it. > In fact I believe debian already officially provides mingw cross - it is > just that the additional files are not fed back upstream here... but I did > a search and I don't know of any rpm-based distro's currently provide > mingw-cross rpms; and for one reasons or another, I don't like how some of > the rpm-packaging of mingw-cross I found on the web is done. (I found two, > one hosted on sourceforge itself, actually, another linked from > wine-devel). And there have been problems caused by those packages, (most of which are substantially outdated, BTW), questions relating to which I've been obliged to politely decline to answer, referring posters to the original packager. Regards, Keith. |