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