On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Cor Blom <corne...@solcon.nl> wrote:
> I have set up a project for building binaries from svn in the open(SUSE) > BuildService. After reading the discussion on the Ubuntu ppa I did not > think a > similar approach would be feasible for OBS. > Great - thanks a lot Cor. You are doing more progress then we for the ppa - there is a problem with the build script, byut we are following it up. > > I have setup a project called "lyx-unstable" in my home project, with two > packages: lyx (this is a regular build from branch-2.0.x) and lyx-unstable > (from trunk). The first is build without suffix and will replace the normal > lyx installation (but the user will have to force this), I do not think that's a good idea - LyX installed by the system should always be the last *released version*, and not BRANCH_2_0_X. > the second is build > with suffix "-unstable" and can be installed next to a normal and stable > lyx. > > I do not think it usefull to give everything a different suffix (and it is > pretty hard work to make everything installable next to each other on an > rpm > system), but I do think it usefull to be able to install trunk next to a > stable version of lyx. > That is something which should be discussed, but the reasoning was that in the past, there were discussions about different file versions and users having to compile from source with version suffix to have 1.6 and 2.0 available simultaneously. But if it is difficult on an rpm system, we could leave it for the moment as it is? Agreed with your second point about trunk. > The binaries can be found here: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornelisbb:/lyx-unstable/ > > And the project here: > > https://build.opensuse.or > g/project/show?project=home%3Acornelisbb%3Alyx-<https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Acornelisbb%3Alyx-> > unstable > > In the descriptions I try to give some explanation. > > These build are not daily. I intent to trigger an update once a week. Trunk > fails to build at the moment, though. > > Released version of LyX are found in the Publising project. From there the > packages go into Factory (what will be the next version of openSUSE). It is > pretty easy to contribute (info on this can be found on the opensuse.orgwiki, > search for colloboration). > > Packages from the 1.6.x branch are only found in released version of > openSUSE > (1.6.9 in 11.4 is the latest). I do not intent to provide packages for > 1.6.10 > (unless there is is demand for it). > > It is not the same as on ubuntu, but I hope this can be usefull for the > development of LyX in the future. > Great - and a big step forward - now we just have to get the ppa to work. Cheers, Rainer > > Cor > > > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
