Re: www-master: Latest SVN or packaged version? (was: SVN finally fully enabled ...)
Hi
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:58:17AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:27:55AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Until someone stands up to set up such system, we should allow makefile
> > to fetch and extract unstable package to create html. If we use some
> > conditional in package's make file, it should not be too difficult to do
> > so. It is each subtree owner's decision and you can do it now.
>
> That would possibly be fine only under the condition that it fetches the
> package and copies the files into its own directory (in place of files which
> would normally get built), leaving the publish rule intact.
That is what I meant.
> But even that is
> wasteful because it has to make e.g. a mirror selection, which evades the
> existing www-master scripts that do the same more consistently.
Hmmm... any pointer? I was going to pick one mirror and curl/wget/dget
deb package(s).
> Also, we definitely don't want novel makefile rules to be directly publishing
> stuff on the web site, because all sorts of strange things can happen with
> that. The existing 'publish' rules are risky enough.
Which publish rule are you talking.
No I do not want to touch main Makefile.
Project makefile: what is the difference in risk to make html files
directly from source or copy contents from package to its publishing
area. I mean that we run "dpkg-deb -x package.deb
/var/tmp/something/" and copy html to install directory. Then emove
/var/tmp/something/.
> Anyway, I think we've spent a lot of time musing about this alternative
> solution, which may give people the wrong impression. The cleanest solution
??? clean ???? or you mean ***practical***. tex-live backport is
non-trivial though. I agree it is practical for most cases. I should
do one backport, I know.
> is to have the necessary tool-chain packages backported - it's a useful
> thing for everyone, and we are after all a community of packagers - it's
> not that hard for us to make backports :)
Joy, you know we (or I) make things in hard way. Now I am having fun
making pbuilder to support unstable and backport with a simple command
line option (Bug #398404). Then I had to lern git and its mail
interface to contribute to the upstream. I have not made back port
yet...
Osamu
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