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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 01:02:32 +0100
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Subject: Re: Binary Downloads
From: Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> wrote:
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Randall Leeds wrote:
>
>> Meebo runs CentOS/Scientific Linux and I've played with the RPM
>> packaging for that quite a bit, though I tend to be less up to date on
>> that since upgrading is a big production, whereas on my desktop I tend
>> to keep more up to date. Happy to help out with that conversation,
>> too, though.
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Someone showed me an ruby gem called "fpm" which has made =
things so much better for anyone doing anything with packaging here.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Basically, if the thing has a fairly standard "make instal=
l" type target (preferably autoconf + configure --prefix), then it will bui=
ld you a .deb, .rpm, etc... with the dependency lists and everything else y=
ou need with roughly the same command.


I think that this role should be lete to distrop package manager. They
don't really need us to do the packages and they generally prefer to
maintain them with the distro tools.

What would be better on the other hand would be to offer them a stable
and reliable upstream build system that they could eventually
customize for their needs.

- beno=EEt