Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] FAQs and cross rpms, etc

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:51, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > Are you thinking RPM packaging? =A0If so, we're not really interested.
>
> yes, I am talking about RPM packaging. $RPM_BUILD_ROOT is exported by
> rpmbuild to any sub-processes launched by it (such as the cross-build
> script which I am thinking of).
>
> That's a somewhat interesting comment 'not really interested" - I am not
> asking somebody else to do the work; what I am saying is, I could do the
> work (an rpm spec file) and asking whether the work could be hosted/bundl=
ed
> officially.

Well, if you are willing to take on the responsibility of packaging, and al=
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of maintaining RPM builds, I'm not vehemently opposed to hosting them from=
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our SF downloads page.  The code for x86-mingw32-build.sh is in CVS on SF; =
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is the xscripts module.  I'm willing to consider patches against that, if y=
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wish to provide them; please post on the patch tracker, so that Michael and=
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can review them.

Just as a thought, however: if we do provide RPM packages, should we not al=
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provide DEB packages?  Gentoo packages?  Autopackage?  And any other distro=
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specific package format you can think of?  The tarball format we provide at=
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present is distro neutral, (and remember, we provide it as a convenience,=20
mainly to GNU/Linux users, because a few of us fall into that group; it isn=
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a mainstream product for us).  Take care that you don't open a bigger can o=
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worms than you are prepared to consume.

Regards,
Keith.