[Kolab-devel] Source releases

[Mathieu Parent]

Hello,


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>:
>
>> * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20091117 10:16]:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Maybe a folder next to ix86-debian4.0, ix86-debian5.0 and sources?
>>
>> Of course "sources" would be the perfect name, but this is already
>> taken for the OpenPKG .src.rpm packages.
>>
>> Sascha proposed "tars" and I second that.
>
> +1

+1

Can we also have nightly (or weekly) snapshots ?

NB: We currently use src.rpm as source for Debian native with a
converter script (see for example:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-kolab/kolabd/trunk/debian/uupdate-wrapper)

>>
>> The alternative would be to move the OpenPKG directories into a
>> separate directory, but I'd say such restructuring should wait until
>> we have to reorganize the directory layout for other reasons anyway.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas

Mathieu Parent