On 12/11/2012 02:27 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
>
>
> On 12/09/2012 12:14 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 10:54:34AM +0200, Issac Goldstand wrote:
>>>>> I looked around a bit but could not find any. Specifically, if
>>>>> I could get the SRPM intended for the Fedora build would be greatly
>>>>> appreciated.
>>>> The build are "universal builds", not different builds targeted to
>>>> specific Linux distributions. You can download the source tarball,
>>>> it's
>>>> the same for all distros.
>>>>
>>>> If you plan to develop, it's better to check out the code with
>>>> subversion (or better git-svn).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Really? If there's an RPM, then there's probably a spec file
>>> *somewhere*, be it maintained by the project, or otherwise.
>>
>> No. The spec are generated at build time and removed once each package
>> each built, so there is no way to get the spec from the build (besides,
>> those spec are generated at runtime and are dependent on configure
>> switches).
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
> On this matter -- identification of spec files for Linux packages. I
> have looked in vain for about 2 weeks on this as well. I found the
> specs for the desktop integrations but this is after the fact -- not
> the actual specs for most of the install.
>
> Mostly I was doing it to see what the story was so at some point we
> could offer "patches" for Linux packs when the need arises. I have not
> personally built AOO on my own machine (I think I may need to do some
> repartitioning to make this viable), so I spent some time looking at
> the buildbot output for the linux-32 build, and searching the source.
> I need to get back to that I guess, but it's rally rather frustrating.
> If someone could help identify the rpm options that would be
> enormously helpful.
>
> It would be great if we could have a goal in the coming year of making
> things easier for former Linux packagers in my opinion.
>
>
>
I would love to be able to have at least something to help a little. I
realize, however, that things are busy. Being able to build a nice tidy
RPM for our userbase would be amazing. I'm going to look into creating
our own RPM but it'll probably take a while since this will be new
territory for me.
