Package distribution hassles - a proposal.

[Simo Sorce]

What about building a script that will build the packages on it's own
every time a new release is made? We can also think to let it run once a
day tomake daily snapshots! Maybe it can be made part of the build farm
so that the packaging gets tested too.

On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 23:12, John H Terpstra wrote:
> Jerry,
> 
> Max's raising of this subject is timely. As you know, I have been wanting
> to revamp the packaging area for some time. It makes sense to do this
> before 3.0 goes live.
> 
> I would like to produce a single RPM SPEC file and would like to create a
> single packaging subsystem for all platforms.
> 
> I wonder if we should address a wider issue though. There is a steady
> increase in the number of direct requests / emails we get each day from
> folks who have problems with or obtaining binary forms of samba. A few
> weeks back I received about 30 direct requests in one day. I would be
> surprised if others of the team are not also receiving these. Most are
> requests for binaries not on our FTP site and for help with trying to
> install on Red Hat Linux.
> 
> My time is very tight lately so I have not chased down or produced as many
> binary packages as in the past. I would like a measure of just how
> important the availability of Samba binary packages is to our success.
> If we all agree that this is a very important service then maybe we should
> look at a mechanism for making this happen more forcefully.
> 
> Just my $0.01 worth.
> 
> - John T.
> 
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> > For background, Max and I have talked about this off list some.
> > Since I am not really maintaining the SPEC files for the various
> > linux distributions, I thought it would be better for him
> > to post here where Tridge, Jeremy, and John T. could discuss
> > it.
> >
> > cheers, jerry
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
> >
> > > Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote:
> > > > Gerald Carter wrote:
> > > >> ...
> > > >>
> > > >> But again, you should be contacting John, Tridge, & Jeremy about this
> > > >> if you want to follow through.
> > > >
> > > > OK. I'll need an intro to get their attention. Do you mind if I forward
> > > > this to them?
> > > >
> > > >> ....
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I'd like to help some. I don't have the resources to take the whole
> > > >>> job on, but I might just be able to make a useful contribution.
> > > >>
> > > >> I really encourage you to talk to the maintainers of this.
> > > >> They have reasons for the design that I'm sure they can articulate
> > > >> much better than I.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anyways....I'm fairly bogged down right now so I'll drop off.
> > > >> Before you start working on this, make sure you get Tridge & John
> > > >> to sign on to the idea.  Jeremy as well of course.  I don't really
> > > >> care on way or the other.
> > > >>
> > > >> ...
> > > >
> > > >> jerry
> > > > mtew at cds.duke.edu
> > >
> > > I'd like to start by collecting a list of all the published
> > > distributions with their salient characteristics. That will take a
> > > bit of work to build. Once I have a preliminary list, I'll post it
> > > to this list (samba-technical) for review. After that I think it would
> > > be appropriate to turn it into a page on the samba.org web site. Also,
> > > a contact point should be established for publishers who want updates
> > > to the page. I'd be one of those contacts and do the page updates, but
> > > there should be an official record as well.
> > >
> > > With that base-line information, it should be quite a bit easier to
> > > build a distribution that interacts well with the stock distribution.
> > >
> > > mtew at cds.duke.edu
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht at samba.org
> 
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> "Not me, I can't find the property in it either!"
> 
> 

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