From: Don A. <dal...@us...> - 2004-08-18 11:53:41
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On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 02:38, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:14:48PM -0600, Don Allingham wrote: > > > 4) Packaging. We get a lot of questions and complaints about > > installation. Right now of the major distributions, GRAMPS is > > easy to install only on a few. Debian and Linspire have GRAMPS in > > their standard repositories. Several others are in fairly decent > > shape - Richard Bos has been doing a great job supporting SuSE via > > apt (which is not standard under SuSE unfortunately), and Fedora > > installs most of the needed packages by default, but still requires > > a bit of effort on the end user's part. > > Regarding Fedora: huh? Just 'make dist' and 'rpmbuild -tb > gramps-*.tar.gz'. The problem here is that I have been building packages for RH/FC. I have two primary machines, a laptop running Debian and a desktop running RH9. I am fortunate enough to not only run Linux at home, but at work as well. Because of this, for compatability reasons, my desktop will have to stay at RH9 until we upgrade at work. And we plan to upgrade to RHEL instead of Fedora, so my desktop will follow suit. With the 1.0.X tree, RH9 is kind of the base platform (GNOME 2.2, pygtk 2.0), so building packages for RH9 works for FC1/FC2. In the 1.1 tree, we will be geared towards GNOME 2.6 and pygtk 2.4, which will drop RH9 from the picture. At this point, someone else will need to take over building the packages for FC(3)? Also, it would be nice to reliably get in a apt/yum repository. That would make it much nicer for Aunt Martha when it comes to installation. Don -- Don Allingham <dal...@us...> GRAMPS - Open Source Genealogy |