Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> One way to go about is to require all involved modules to have an
> RPM .spec file, and jhbuild can be instructed to build and
> install RPMs, but most probably this will not be accepted
> practice in GNOME.  Or am I wrong?
>  
This is not practical, especially with so many incompatible RPM 
distributions out there.  Plus the distros would just have to throw the 
spec files in the trash and use their own anyway.  Plus there's 
debian-based distributions.

Ubuntu unstable has unstable gnome versions, incidentally, though 
they're not build nightly as that would be painful for everyone involved 
(imagine having to pull many megs of updates every day).

It'd be really nice if RPMs and DEBs had a way of supporting patching 
existing installs without downloading whole new packages.

-Rob