Op woensdag 29 juni 2011 15:17:21 schreef Rainer M Krug: > > Hi Cor, > > > As I am already doing some packaging of lyx for opensuse and just started > > experimenting building trunk in the buildservice, I can look into a setup > > of a > > number of frequent builds. > > > > LyX is maintained in the Pubishing project > > (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Publishing). I try to > > maintain there the latest stable release that will be part of the next > > version > > of openSUSE. It is not necessary to duplicate this. > > > > i can make one or two seperate (sub)projects in my home project > > (home:cornelisbb) or a subproject in Publishing (I don't think there is a > > general convention for this kind of stuff in OBS, have to ask). > > > > I have to investigate how to do this (still learning to use the > > buildservice), > > so it will take some time. > > That sounds great - perfect. Did you follow the discussion about the ppas? > In that one we also discussed some basics of the configuration of the > packages, i.e. that (in case of the ubuntu) all packages should be build > with the vesion suffix option set, and that one should be available with > the original ubuntu config, which updates the original ubuntu binary.
I have seen the discussion, but not yet read in detail. I will try to follow the same setup, but do not know yet the guidelines in OBS. More to follow. Cor > > I think the same principle should be adopted for the other distros, as far > as this is compatible with their packaging systems / guidelines. > > I think we should probably setup a wiki page about the packaging principles > whicha re used for the automatic / manual builds of LyX which are to be > considered as "official binaries"? > > If somebody could add a page (in a section where it is appropriate) for > packaging guidelines, I would be happy to fill some in. > > Rainer > > > Kind regards, > > > > Cor Blom