[Sbcl-devel] Re: SBCL RPMs

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>>>>> "WHN" == William Harold Newman <wil...@ai...> writes:

    WHN> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:56:55AM -0800, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
    >> I use Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) Linux.  Mandriva has
    >> slightly different RPM packaging constraints that RedHat
    >> (but close).
    >> I've made srpms for Mandriva for SBCL, taking Dave Roberts'
    >> stuff as a starting point.  Would you like me to send them
    >> to you for inclusion in the Sourceforge project?

    WHN> Packages for Mandriva do sound useful. Is it your intent to do it just
    WHN> this once, or to continue doing it regularly for many releases?
    WHN> (Either is useful; having even one old binary version available lets
    WHN> users compile a new version from source for themselves.)

I was thinking of continuing to do this on a fairly regular basis
(possibly being a parasite on Dave Roberts' continuing efforts).

0.9.8 seems to be working fine for me.  0.9.9 I'm having trouble
packaging.

I was going to just put them up on my website, but my ISP beat me with
a club... :-)

Not unreasonably!  I put up patched xemacs rpms at the same time!

    WHN> Did Mandriva choose another extension for their filenames, or are they
    WHN> still called foo.rpm? If they are still called foo.rpm, ours can hardly 
    WHN> be the first download page to encounter the problem that foo.rpm looks
    WHN> like something intended for RedHat but is instead slightly incompatible.
    WHN> Is there a de facto standard filename convention to cope with this?
    WHN> (foo-mandriva.rpm or some such thing)

They look like this;

sbcl-0.9.8-0.1-20060mdk.i586.rpm

I think you can count on the 'mdk' always being there (it might change
to 'mdv,' at some point).

    WHN> We might put up one or more Mandriva binaries on sbcl.sf.net's File
    WHN> Release page, or we could link to a page where you have write access
    WHN> to put up new versions yourself.

See above -- my write access doesn't extend to rpms.

    WHN> I recommend that you reply to sbc...@li..., rather than to
    WHN> me personally, and I encourage you to quote this entire message,
    WHN> including your original message quoted above. (There is often some
    WHN> value in having discussions like this visible in the mailing list
    WHN> archives.)

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