Re: Building DEBs from GARNOME

[Tomasz Król <yautja interia pl>]

> > -1st- it should be easier to install GARNOME on more then one machine
> > rather from DEBs or RMPs then tarballs.
>
> scp -r ~/garnome othermachine:
>
> > -2nd- When something goes wrong with my system it should be easy to
> > UNINSTALL garnome (yeah - such things happen ;-) ) from it.
>
> rm -rf ~/garnome
>
> > Debian has tools that can ease such process and files from "debian"
> > directory could be generated by Garnome makefile individually for each
> > tarball.
>
> This is not an uncomplicated process, especially if you tried to get GAR
to
> build packages with debhelper. If GAR were to build .deb files at all (and
> I'd suggest that it is a waste of time), it should build raw packages with
> generated control files and a tarball of the installable files, rather
than
> attempting to use debhelper.
>
> > Now I have realy not much time for playing around my home
> > Woody but when I will have some I'll try to write such scripts. Be
> > patient ;-)
>
> I'm not really interested in having this in GARNOME. The packages will be
> shite (guaranteed - humans do a better job), I'll get lots of clueless
> bugreports about them, and it will take away from the point of GARNOME ->
> that it is a distribution of GNOME for *testers*.
>
> - Jeff

You are right. I'll leave it as is - no more debianizing ideas.