On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:21 PM Alan Fry <ttlx0100_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello.
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> I'm interested in building a package for Synology. Apparently the Synology version was abandoned (I did email them, they would not share who was maintaining it... so I couldn't get what was already done and move it forward).
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> That said, I'm a software developer... however all my experience is in the Windows world.
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> I'd like to take on building SVN and creating the Synology package, but I'm completely lost on the linux tribal knowledge needed to do this.
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> That said, I had posted in the user list, and someone mentioned that there was a need for some Windows help? Maybe I could take that on first, to learn enough about the build process for SVN?
Hi Terry,
Based on some quick searches, it looks like the Synology NAS is an
ARM-based machine and runs a Linux distro which is Debian-based and
customized by Synology. Assuming I'm correct (let me know if not),
that tells me that the build should be done on an ARM-based machine
(which might be the NAS itself).
Does Synology provide any documentation or examples to help software
packagers? One thing you'll need to know in particular is whether a
package for Synology is really just a Debian ".deb" package for APT,
perhaps with some special sauce added to provide a one-click install
icon or something. If it is, then a package for another Debian-based
distro might be a starting point.
If you're not comfortable with Linux yet, you might want to experiment
with it on a virtual machine first, to reduce the risk of messing up
your NAS with a wrong administrative command. With a virtual machine,
you could also practice building SVN on Linux.
Regarding Windows, yes, we are rather low on Windows developers, and
any help is very much appreciated. If you're looking for specifics,
just ask; there's plenty to do around here. We're all volunteers, so
obviously you choose how little or how much involvement you'd like.
Since you're a Windows developer, getting SVN building on Windows
might be a good first step to get acquainted in an environment you
know. If later on you wish to hack on SVN on Windows, having a working
build environment will be helpful for that too. :-)
The canonical documentation of how to build SVN is in the INSTALL
file. You can read the latest revision online at [1] or find it in any
SVN release zip file or tarball. Unfortunately the Windows sections
are a little dated, so there's a collection of Windows build notes in
the email thread archived at [2]. I think I gave you that second link
before; it documents manual steps to build SVN's dependencies on
Windows but stops just before building SVN itself. I recommend using
the email thread to build the dependencies as it's more current, and
follow INSTALL for the build of SVN itself.
Hope this is helpful... Feel free to ask questions anytime.
Cheers,
Nathan
[1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/INSTALL
[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r59a30aabaab7bf69effa909b331eaa177418325280ea25859e8fa294%40%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E
Received on 2020-08-18 05:19:44 CEST