Re: Release questions...

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:56 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> I have a python script that takes the current jhbuild gnome release
> moduleset (i.e. gnome-2.12.modules for now) and automatically creates
> a tarball version of that moduleset including dependencies (i.e.
> gnome-2.11.91.modules and freedesktop-2.11.91.modules) and a versions
> file (for use with the release scripts) by doing lots of searching on
> the web for the latest tarball releases of all the relevant modules. 
> It seems to work (although I've only run 'jhbuild list' with the new
> moduleset after removing the pyorbit dependency so I don't know if it
> really works yet), but the problems above make the versions file
> require some hand-editing (and I'm not sure what the right edits are
> in some cases).

Excellent work. We always wanted something like this, and we hoped to
put the jhbuild-tarball-module-set in the release directory, so that
people can point jhbuild directly at the URL.

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