On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:33:06PM +0200, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
> Ben, this is a followup to a thread on the subversion-devel list,
> which is about getting the RPM spec for Mandrake up-to-date (at least
> that is how I understood it :-). Since I am not sure if you read the
> devel list, I added a CC for you.
>
> On Fri 2003-09-19 at 19:36:31 +0000, Files wrote:
> > Ok. Here's the scoop.
> >
> > I think I've got the Mandrake RPMs set up to compile the trunk.
> [...]
>
> I did not follow the complete thread, so ignore me if what I say is
> well-known:
>
> Shamim, you are aware that contrib for Mandrake Cooker already
> contains subversion packages? So ML 9.2 which is to be released
> shortly, will contain 0.29.0 in contrib. The maintainer changed
> recently and it is now Ben Reser (a volunteer).
>
> I do not know if the package in contrib uses the spec file coming with
> subversion or uses one created by the previous maintainer. Anyhow, I
> just wanted to make sure you know this, because I got the impression
> that neither of both of you seem to be aware of the work of the other.
>
> If that's wrong, then, well, just as I said, ignore my ignorance. ;)
>
> Bye,
>
> Benjamin.
>
> PS: Shamim, if you have any questions regarding Cooker, ask Ben
> directly. I am just a lurker that does some testing, and does not
> have a real clue about how contrib for Mandrake Cooker is handled.
Looking back at the thread I see that he's building trunk on Mandrake.
As a matter of policy development versions aren't shipped in Mandrake
(or included in contrib) unless there is a really good reason to do
that.
I do try to keep the version in cooker contrib at the release version.
Depending on my work load, it is usually there wihin a few days of the
release in the packages I maintain. I'll probably be doing a 3mdk soon
because I finally got the perl bindings to build/work. I'd certainly be
happy to take a look at anything anyone else has done. But our contrib
spec is pretty complex to try and package subversion while conforming to
various Mandrake policies.
Of course cooker contrib doesn't help people running stable releases of
Mandrake much. However, I do generally provide packages on my own
private tree that are for the most part the same. I've actually
undertaken to try and make the Mandrake packages more buildable on older
releases as of late. Also in my tree I keep other packages that may be
required to install subversion, but that weren't shipped in Mandrake
main or contrib (they will be in 9.2 of course).
You can find my tree at:
http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/
You can add my tree to your urpmi setup by doing:
curl http://ben.reser.org/benreser.asc | gpg --import && urpmi.addmedia breser http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/`uname -m | perl -e '$_ = <>; $out = q(i586) if (/i[3-6]?86|athlon/); $out = q(ppc) if (/ppc/); print qq($out\n);'`/`cat /etc/mandrake-release |cut -d ' ' -f 4`/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz
(Yes that's really one line be careful that if your email client wraps
it that you provide the proper spacing)
HTHs.
--
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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Received on Sat Sep 20 04:40:35 2003