Re: [Denemo-devel] I am going to need help if we are going to use Novell's package building system

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 07:33 +0800, address@hidden wrote:

> When I get a chance, which will  most likely not be before tomorrow
> night, I plan to push the Fedora source RPM and spec file onto the
> Denemo download page.  This will allow me to apply for Fedora peer
> review of the package which is the next stage of getting Denemo into
> Fedora.
> I notice that all the files on the download page are signed (with
> pgp ?). Can only you do this, and is this useful to users or just
> provide a check that the files have not been tampered with?

You can sign it also you just need to upload your key to savannah. Login
to savannah under My account Configuration you need to add your gpg key.
Once you have done that you need to wait for their cron to pick it up.
Then you will be able to upload files. The keys say that they are from
you and they have not been tampered with. 

> Regards,
> Roy Rankin
> 
> Note: I have build Fedora RPMs for x86_64 and should be able to build
> them for 386. Should I do this and push them onto the download page
> also?

Yes. I could but ideally you should do it.  

Jeremiah 

> 
> 
> 
> On Wed Aug 6 5:47 , Jeremiah Benham sent:
> 
>         The novell's building system is nice but it is also a pain.
>         For each
>         distro their needs to be spec files (for the rpm based),
>         and .dsc and a
>         few other files for the .deb based packages. For each distro
>         dependencies need to be taken care of. This is going to be
>         more work
>         than I have time and motivation for. Each time we release a
>         new file
>         this will all have to change. Each spec or .dsc file each
>         repository url
>         etc... 
>         
>         While trying to set this up I can't help but think how I
>         personally
>         never ever install binary packages unless it came from my
>         distro. I
>         always compiled from source. I also think it is to much work
>         to create
>         packages for these disto's when the package maintainers will
>         redo all
>         this anyway when they package it for {debian, suse, Fedora,
>         etc.} I say
>         we just make a list of the various package maintainers for the
>         major
>         distro's and let them know about it so they include it in the
>         next
>         release. Perhaps they will even package it early for us. 
>         
>         I will be willing still use the Novell's system if some people
>         sign up
>         for the service and joined my group. Perhaps the package
>         maintainers? I
>         don't know. This seems like a lot of work and I would rather
>         by writing
>         code or doing other things.
>         
>         Jeremiah 
>         
>         
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