Re: Red Hat packaging

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 18:32, Roy-Magne Mo wrote:
> On lau , 2002-01-19 at 01:21, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > On lau , 2002-01-19 at 00:22, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > >  > I've uploaded my rpms to the master (anonftp not available) server.  As
> > > > of right now, a sync is running, so ftp.gnome.org should be updated
> > > > soon. 
> > > 
> > > ... 
> > > 
> > > > Heh, that's enough from me for now, I'm going to take a break away from
> > > > the computer, but I'll be back in a few hours, ready to push some new
> > > > packages with all of the fixes that you folks tell me about.  Later!
> > > 
> > > gnome-games package that's 8Mb seems suspicious...
> > 
> > Seems that way, don't it?  However, the package is perfectly valid.  I
> > forgot to mention that I compiled all of these with 
> > 
> > %define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
> > 
> > in to spec file, so none of the binaries are stripped.  This makes for
> > bigger downloads, but much more useful bug reports.  
> 
> 
> I see it now after downloading the packages. 
> 
> I've made a local apt-repository of the packages. I'm afraid there's to
> little dependency information to make it useful right now. 

Can we create the information manually?  Theres a depends.dia file
somewhere in CVS which has lots of this information, at least enough to
get us started.

> How about splitting the packages up in gnome20 and gnome14, so one
> specify the safe gnome14 packages without fear of the gnome20 packages
> intervening? 

Everything that I uploaded today is GNOME 2...  
	Greg

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