From fink-devel Sun Nov 30 10:57:06 2008 From: "Richard Hartmann" Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:57:06 +0000 To: fink-devel Subject: [Fink-devel] Invitation to a cross-distro/OS games packaging list Message-Id: <2d460de70811300257v5888b323p6dcbef4546f58178 () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=fink-devel&m=122804268306781 Hi all, The Debian and Ubuntu games teams have merged completely and the Fedora team has been working more and more with us to reduce duplicated work. We have been using the Debian games mailing list until now, but we decided that a distro/OS-agnostic list would be better. At the moment, members of Arch, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, NetBSD, Slackbuilds (the officially unofficial Slackware package repository) and SuSE are on this list. As Games are somewhat special in that they in general need more patches than other packages and that they often have a dead upstream, we plan to discuss some ways there to try and collaborate more. We have started defining requirements and possible layouts for below-upstream repositories. Test repositories are in the works. You can then pull from there and get a common, patched version. Specific patches would be applied either in your local repositories via your existing processes or, in cases where such an infrastructure does not exist, you could maintain packaging information etc within our repository. I hope I managed to interest a few of you and hope to see you on games@lists.freedesktop.org [1], soon. For an introduction, read Miry's email [2] and mine [3]. Richard [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000006.html [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000011.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel