Re: [Evolution-hackers] missing Evolution 1.4.4 source RPMs

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:00, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> any way for us to find out more about the types of techniques you are
> working on? anything that might help debug this beast would be cool :-)

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~liblit/sampler/

I've been talking with Ben on and off- it's seriously cool stuff, even
if I only understand about 1/2 of it. I'm sorry I never got in touch
with you guys about it- I should have done so immediately, since he
wants to work with Evolution as a testbed.

Luis

> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 03:14, Ben Liblit wrote:
> > Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/source/evolution
> > 
> > The 1.4.4 tarball in that directory is incomplete from the perspective 
> > of RPM packaging.  It is missing "evolution.spec".  I am building 
> > Evolution RPMs which need to be as close as possible to drop-in 
> > replacements for Ximian's builds, and that means building them using the 
> > same specfile.
> > 
> > (Why am I building my own Evolution RPMs?  My builds contain extra 
> > instrumentation to help in tracking down bugs.  This is part of an 
> > ongoing research project here at UC Berkeley.  We're using Evolution as 
> > a case study to try out our bug isolation techniques.)
> > 
> > I can fake up a 1.4.4 specfile based on the 1.4.3 one, but I'd much 
> > rather know that I was starting from Ximian's real 1.4.4 build 
> > configuration.
> > 
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