Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: [...] > I do not know much about how things are done in the RPM world, > but is there a concept of "the upstream" vs "packaging > maintainer" there? IOW, are the majority of RPM binary packages > done by the upstream maintainer? No, they aren't. RPM is set up so you can take the vanilla upstream package and add local patches, special configuration, ... at will downstream. > > I am currently generating i386 RPMs and i386 debs myself but I > am not particularly proud of the current setup. I do not have > an RPM based machine that I can install the result myself to > test (which is what started this thread). Since I am not a > Debian developer (and I do not particularly wish to become one > myself), the debs I generate will not be official anyway. > Personally I'd be happier if I can just lose rpm and deb targets > from the "upstream" Makefile (git-core.spec file and debian/ > subdirectory as well while we are at it), ask "packaging > maintainers" to pull from kernel.org/ tree and do RPMs and Debs > outside. Please keep the git-core.spec file, it is useful to be able to build RPMs directly from the tarball. [...] > One thing we could do without breaking much of the current > arrangement is to have a team of people to help porting for > major packaging formats (RPMs and Debs mostly but I know we have > OpenBSD and Darwin people here too), and ask them to feed me the > updates to rpm/deb/whatever target in the Makefile as needed. > Especially before a major release I could ask them to test > things out and generate binary packages, perhaps taken out of > the tip of the master branch, or even another "for-porters" > branch for this purpose. Good idea. Will build RPMs regularly then. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Nov 02 13:12:45 2005
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