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Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian
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Jeremiah C. Foster |
Subject: |
Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian |
Date: |
Sat, 10 May 2008 17:31:46 +0200 |
>
> I don't know much about any of this, but perhaps it would be a good idea to
> seperate out libxnee entirely and make it a dep of xnee. The point of the
> library is to allow the implimentation of xnee type actions in other apps.
> Perhaps it would even make sense to have a seperate dev tree and source
> package, as some groups have done. Perhaps that would just be going to
> far.... but it does make sense to me to break things into three main
> packages, and one dev:
>
> libxnee
> xnee - cnee, gnee, pnee + all docs
> xnee-cli - cnee
> libxnee-dev
>
> We at microvu are only really interested in libxnee and xnee-cli, but it
> should'nt be that much more work to do a package of xnee full once xnee-cli
> is done. I haven't read the debian policy documentation yet, so perhaps there
> is another way this should be organized.
>
> Based on that configuration the extra config flags should be...
>
> libxnee: --disable-gui --disable-cli --enable-lib --enable-shared
> --disable-static --disable-doc --disable-gnome-applet
> xnee: --enable-gui --enable-cli --enable-gnome-applet --disable-lib
> --disable-shared --disable-static --disable-static-programs
> xnee-cli: --disable-gui --enable-cli --disable-gnome-applet --disable-lib
> --disable-shared --disable-static --disable-static-programs
>
> libxnee-dev: --disable-gui --disable-cli --enable-lib --disable-shared
> --enable-static --disable-doc --disable-gnome-applet
>
> is enable lib and shared redundant? disable-doc because the docs are for
> bins, right? or should docs be enabled for the libs? is gnome-applet already
> disabled by default? Are these conflicting? Does this look totally wrong?
> erm...que`?
>
> > > How familiar are you with building debs JD? Have you ever used
> > > pbuilder? (I just started to use pbuilder myself and find it very
> > > useful.) Your goals are to build a deb for local use, but if it
> > > builds and works, I think it should be submitted to debian so
> > > everyone can use it - this would be ideal I think and in keeping
> > > with Henrik's and my philosophies about Free Software.
>
> We've built tons of packages internally, and use them regularly for system
> configuration, but we've never a distribution debian package here. I'll read
> up on pbuilder. My initial goal was just to build a deb for internal use, but
> most of the times we do this we don't start from source. Also, for internal
> use we only really need xnee-cli. I'm doing this partially to learn more
> about Debian package management. My boss has OK'd this partially also to give
> back to Linux a little bit for the all the things we've gotten. One of my
> coworkes has also joined the list, he's the current maintainer of our
> (ubuntu) repositories and builds/maintains most or all of our internal
> packages at this point.
>
> > > As I said before, just fire off a mail if you want help or testing
> > > or what have you.
>
> Will do... and I guess done... thanx.
>
> --
>
> Josh Dukes
> MicroVu IT Department
>
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- [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Josh Dukes, 2008/05/07
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Henrik Sandklef, 2008/05/08
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Jeremiah C. Foster, 2008/05/16
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Jeremiah C. Foster, 2008/05/16
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Henrik Sandklef, 2008/05/08
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Josh Dukes, 2008/05/08
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Henrik Sandklef, 2008/05/08
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Henrik Sandklef, 2008/05/13
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian,
Jeremiah C. Foster <=
- Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian, Jeremiah C. Foster, 2008/05/16