Re: [Bitcoin-development] Linux packaging letter

2013-07-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Mike Hearn writes: > If packagers hear upstreams cry about packaging a lot, I think you should > keep an open mind that some of them probably know what they're talking > about. We really shouldn't have to beg and cajole here. Saying "we have our > reasons and we want you to stop" should be enough

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Linux packaging letter

2013-07-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Gregory Maxwell writes: > It's "portable" to anything that can run the relevant VMs. Uh > provided you don't mind cross compiling everything from an unbuntu VM. > It certainly would be nice if the trusted-computing-base for gitian > were a bit smaller, thats an area for long term improvement fo

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Linux packaging letter

2013-07-23 Thread Greg Troxel
I find it interesting that this is a "linux packaging letter". How much of this applies to pkgsrc, FreeBSD ports, OpenBSD ports, and other non-Linux packaging systems (pkgsrc supports Linux as on of 20 operating systems, but is not a "Linux packaging system")? Is the repeatable build infrastructu