Re: [gnome.org #90] ftp account for uploading Solaris packages

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

cc'd to gnome-hackers, as more hands makes lighter work (in theory).

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 03:58, Laszlo PETER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Greg Leblanc via RT wrote:
> 
> > master.gnome.org now.  scp your packages over.  Right now, there's no
> > script to put binaries in place, but they should probably go into
> > /ftp/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/solaris/*, somehows.  Ideally into a directory
> > for the package name, but as that's such a PITA without a maintainence
> > script, I'm not going to be picky at this point.  There will be some ftp
> > re-organiztion coming soon (early next week, I'd guess), and I'll send
> > out mail to people when that happens.  Let me know if you have any
> > questions,
> 
> Well, you don't normally download individual Solaris packages.
> (Standard Solaris packages are in a directory format -- unpacked, uncompressed)
> Our preferred way of distributing builds is one big tar.bz2 and install
> instructions. When you unpack the tarball you get all the packages,
> more instructions and install/remove scripts.
> I.e. the /ftp/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/solaris directory would contain only 2 files:
>   - README
>   - gnome-2.0-alpha.tar.bz2 (size ~37M)
> 
> Do you have any problems with this?

Ahh, I see.  This is how the Sun 1.4 release was done as well.  I was
thinking that you would be packaging things more like the
sunfreeware.com packages, which have a single download per package.  I
think this strategy makes a lot of sense if you're trying to ensure that
you have a package that's well tested and works nicely together.  Thus,
it certainly is the best way to go for official Sun releases.  

I think that one file (.tar.gz, -local.gz, whatever) will make community
testing easier, in that people will be able to upgrade just parts of
their GNOME install, to test individual fixes, and so on.

Of course, this is all opinion, and you're free to do whatever you
like.  Later,
	Greg

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Portland, Oregon, USA.