From kde-release-team Sun May 22 14:50:33 2011 From: Scott Kitterman Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 14:50:33 +0000 To: kde-release-team Subject: Re: KDE 4.7 Beta1 (4.6.80) tarballs uploaded (try#1) Message-Id: <78098425-5ac6-4206-8f0e-8194c2d2351d () email ! android ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-release-team&m=130610341025322 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0667369371==" --===============0667369371== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----9BW8BMVPCKSXTNG3T0M0JD2BHWIA5F" ------9BW8BMVPCKSXTNG3T0M0JD2BHWIA5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kevin Kofler wrote: >On Sunday 22 May 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote: >> So, what I'm doing right now for kdesupport is to create one >> CMakeLists.txt, which contains all the contained projects (automoc4, >> phonon, attica, akonadi, ...) via the externalproject()-feature from >> CMake. >> What it does, is it gets and updates all the sources from git, >configures, >> builds and installs them. >> So it feels almost like it did before. > >Unfortunately, this is of no use for us packagers because we are banned >by >policy (and at least in Fedora, this is enforced by the build system) >from >downloading stuff during build. We can only work from tarballs. (If we >want to >package a snapshot, we have to check it out, tar it, then package the >resulting tarball.) The same is true for Ubuntu. Scott K ------9BW8BMVPCKSXTNG3T0M0JD2BHWIA5F Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:

>On Sunday 22 May 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> So, what I'm doing right now for kdesupport is to create one
>> CMakeLists.txt, which contains all the contained projects (automoc4,
>> phonon, attica, akonadi, ...) via the externalproject()-feature from
>> CMake.
>> What it does, is it gets and updates all the sources from git,
>configures,
>> builds and installs them.
>> So it feels almost like it did before.
>
>Unfortunately, this is of no use for us packagers because we are banned
>by
>policy (and at least in Fedora, this is enforced by the build system)
>from
>downloading stuff during build. We can only work from tarballs. (If we
>want to
>package a snapshot, we have to check it out, tar it, then package the
>resulting tarball.)

The same is true for Ubuntu.

Scott K
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