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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A proposal to deal with the current RedHat situation
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-01 22:22:27
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On Sunday 01 September 2002 16:59, Shawn Gordon wrote:
>
> Since we have to package our software to work on various versions of
> KDE and linux distros and versions, we built a system we call Jane
> that has about 10 different distros on it, various versions of the
> popular ones, we try to have the current release and 1 or 2 releases
> back typically.  We have a very cool technology that we built that
> will take a source tarball with the spec files for building in each
> of those distros in it and go through and build them all
> automatically, at the end you will get a set of rpms for each distro
> for each thing you've built.  If someone is willing to create and
> maintain those spec files for the various pieces that need to be
> included for each distro/version, then we can use our build system
> and technology to create packages for all the various distros that we
> support.  This way KDE would make the packages, and not the distros. 
> So now when people complain that RedHat has a fubarred KDE we can
> point them to the "official" KDE package (hosted by KDE).

Does that mean you would provide a set of servers with remote access for 
packagers? How would the packages be tested? Is there some 
documentation about Jane available?

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
 
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