[Kolab-devel] Source releases

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl>:

> Hi Gunnar,
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:16:26AM +0100, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> when we met on Friday we briefly discussed the problem that we still
>> move from source to RPMs directly for a few remaining packages. As far
>> as I can see these are:
>>
>>  - perl-kolab
>>  - kolabd
>>  - kolab-webadmin
>>
>> To fix this I think it would be sufficient if you designate a download
>> location on files.kolab.org where releases for these packages should
>> be provided as tar.gz.
>>
>> I would then fix the Makefiles of these package to add support for
>> this intermediate tar.gz step. I don't think the first tar.gz's will
>> be beautiful but it will be better than nothing.
>
> This is already possible for kolabd and kolab-webadmin (for a few year ;) ),
> and the tarbals are beautiful.  Try:
>
>
> kolab-webadmin> ./bootstrap; ./configure; make distcheck
>
> The result is:
> ======================================================
> kolab-webadmin-2.2.2 archives ready for distribution:
> kolab-webadmin-2.2.2.tar.bz2
> ======================================================
>
> The same is valid for kolabd.

Yes, but we don't distribute them and I consider that necessary. And  
I'd never say that kolabd or kolab-webadmin are "nice" packages. But  
I'm a packaging fanatic anyway so that doesn't have to be taken too  
serious ;)

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> Have fun :)
>
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> Richard
>
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