packaging (was: Re: Mandrake 9.0 RPMS)

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:27:17AM -0600, Michael Ballbach wrote:
>...
> I've made some mandrake 9 rpms to facilitate installing subversion and
> related bits. The url is http://www.rten.net/mdk-svn.html

Cool.

>...
> The apache2 rpm is just a rebuild of the cooker apache2 with DB4 and
> maintainer mode. The swig rpm is a rebuild with the more recent swig.
> neon, db4, and subversion were built with new spec files. I didn't
> notice the subversion redhat spec until I was partly through writing the
> mandrake spec, but when I did notice it I tried to make them more or
> less match with their output. I did not, however, separate cvs2svn off
> into its own rpm. I included the python bindings and the script in the
> main rpm.

I would think that users will want several RPMs. Something like:

* subversion-base
* subversion-client
* subversion-server
* subversion-devel
* subversion-python

If we say that the server cannot be installed without the client, then the
-base can disappear. Note that we can also separate the client into several
pieces if we want:

* subversion-client-common
* subversion-client-dav
* subversion-client-local

We've architected the RA layer to detect and load RA backends, so we don't
necessarily have to have both at the same time. Note that -local would
depend upon DB4, while -dav would depend on Neon.

The last bit of granularity, and possible resolution would be the dependency
handling for DB4. -local and -server both depend upon it, and the libraries
they install, too. So you might have something like subversion-repos.

Now... I don't know about doing this many RPMs. I can definitely see the
Debian folks doing this, as they like to have fine-grained dependencies. The
dependency tree would be something like:

  subversion-base
    subversion-client-common
      subversion-client-dav (also on Neon)
    subversion-repos (also on DB4)
      subversion-server (also on apache2)
      subversion-client-local (also on -client-common)
    subversion-devel
    subversion-python (also on swig (runtime))

Urf. Would -devel or -python need to be split, too? Oy... :-)

> The source rpms and some convenience archives are up there too.
> Hopefully, as the spec file matures for the subversion portion, it or a
> derivative can be incorporated into packages/rpm/mandrake-9 or similar.

If I gave you commit privs, would you be willing to maintain your .spec file
and other build bits in the a new /trunk/packages/mandrake section?

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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