On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 22:56 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > > It seems to me that being able to easily build GNOME would go a long way > > towards people knowing where we stand as a community during our development > > cycles. > > > > How is the work on that coming along? > > It is doing fine, thanks for asking :) Seriously there have been > very few glitches in 2.17 for the moment, notably thanks to frozen > external dependencies. > > Unfortunately, this is just an answer to 'being able to build GNOME', > even without problems it is still a huge task, the best things would > be do have experimental packages (be it rpm or deb) for consumption, > we are not there (yet). > > > Regards, > > Frederic Frederic, I did some work on getting jhbuild to create RPM packages last year [1]. While I didn't fully complete it at the time I am still interested in making this a reality. I am curious to know who is working on this and how I might be able to help. I have been building Gnome 2.17 with jhbuild with the idea that I would try to resurrect my previous work, but if someone else is actively working on it I would like to help them. Mark. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-packaging-list/2005-August/msg00000.html
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