Re: [Savonet-users] Fedora RPM Building

[Chris E. <chr...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Romain Beauxis<to...@ra...> wrote:
>        Hi !
>
> Le lundi 27 juillet 2009 22:29:12, Chris Everest a écrit :
>> So i started looking into building a Fedora RPM of liquidsoap.
>
> Thanks for this work, this is a great news !
>
>> I keep
>> finding myself compiling (yuk) and have even resorted to running
>> virtual Ubuntu instances, to make the liquidsoap install less painful.
>>  So here's my question:
>>
>> 1.) Do I need to split out lame dependencies (et al non-free library
>> dependencies) to have this RPM distributed by the liquidsoap project?
>
> Clearly no. The stable and daily build packages are built directly from the
> full set of dependencies without individual packages.
>
> The problem can be for external dependencies like ocaml-pcre if they are not
> packaged for Fedora.
>
> In any way, you can distribute a binary package of liquidsoap without the need
> to also package the external dependencies that we ship.
>
>> 2.) Maybe Axel from atrpms would dist?  Or rpm fusion.  I don't know
>> how those orgs operate.
>
> I don't know. For reaching the most users as possible, it is always better to
> distribute the packages there and not in the project's website.
> I don't know how these sites work, though. In particular, you'd probably have
> to also package the dependencies in this case.
>


Fedora has some existing conflicts in ocaml-pcre with atrpms and the
fedora repos, so I have some sleuth work to do.  However, I have been
able to compile successfully on a routine basis, so we'll see what
happens.



-- 
Chris Everest