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

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 7/19/05, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <quote who="Luis Villa">
> 
> > <shrug> If we're going to throw massive tarballs over the wall, might as
> > well add the extra few megs and just make them debug from the start, no?
> >
> > Luis (noting that he has no idea if this would actually *work*)
> 
> This has been done a few times in the history of GARNOME. It works fine, tho
> it's easier to build blobs for particular distros than attempt to ship just
> one blob. We go to far up and down the stack now to do that. :-)

Yeah, figured it would have to be per-distro*. With a little help from
vmware or something along those lines that should be too hard to
automate.

Luis

* I'm still a monkey at heart; the solution is *always* to build per distro. ;)