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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: KDE 4.7 Beta1 (4.6.80) tarballs uploaded (try#1)
From:       Scott Kitterman <kde () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2011-05-22 14:50:33
Message-ID: 78098425-5ac6-4206-8f0e-8194c2d2351d () email ! android ! com
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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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Kevin Kofler &lt;kevin.kofler@chello.at&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt;On Sunday 22 May 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; So, what I&#39;m doing right now for kdesupport is to create one<br>
&gt;&gt; CMakeLists.txt, which contains all the contained projects (automoc4,<br>
&gt;&gt; phonon, attica, akonadi, ...) via the externalproject()-feature from<br>
&gt;&gt; CMake.<br>
&gt;&gt; What it does, is it gets and updates all the sources from git,<br>
&gt;configures,<br>
&gt;&gt; builds and installs them.<br>
&gt;&gt; So it feels almost like it did before.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;Unfortunately, this is of no use for us packagers because we are banned<br>
&gt;by <br>
&gt;policy (and at least in Fedora, this is enforced by the build system)<br>
&gt;from <br>
&gt;downloading stuff during build. We can only work from tarballs. (If we<br>
&gt;want to <br>
&gt;package a snapshot, we have to check it out, tar it, then package the <br>
&gt;resulting tarball.)<br>
<br>
The same is true for Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
Scott K<br>


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