ne thing i am missing are patched packages, rpm and also deb packages > > have a mechanism to include patch files an apply during build process. > > > > For most bacula users it would be much easier to apply patches by "rpm > > -U ..." or "dpkg install ...". > > Yes, but you have to build, test and release a package for each disto > after > each patch, this is a *huge* amount of work, we have something like 10 > patches between two releases.
We use tinderbox to do this. I know others that use the SuSE build farm tools. There is an initial startup cost to setting up automated build and test, but longer term, it's a win in that you are able to just dump the patch into a directory and get the packages for all your supported architectures 12 hours later. You already have ctest set up, and if you're going to run commercial operations, you probably are going to need test infrastructure anyway, so you might as well buck up and do it right. > If someone want to build, test and package 10 more often than before for > free, > no problem, but i prefere spend my time with new features and bugs > hunting. 2nd option is to package the source diffs into RPM and APT, and provide those via a repository. Applying a diff is a fairly simple operation, and people who care about most recent binaries can do rpmbuild -bb on their own systems easily enough if the source is correctly packaged. Coming up with a source patch RPM and APT template isn't rocket science, and it's basic support discipline to not release applications or updates that circumvent the software management system if there is one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
