Re: KDE debs building
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On Sunday 15 September 2002 7:35 pm, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Sunday 15 September 2002 4:35 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > as some of you got to know until now, I switched from SuSE to Debian this
> > week - - and directly hit the fact that building debs from CVS would work
> > best for me to have it working the right way (tm). Now, I got into
> > working with Chris lately and we try to fix the issues one by one soon
> > now so that everyone can build debs himself but more important, provide
> > debs for KDE constantly that work, where also most importantly betas,
> > RC's and finals are provided by the day that the packages are build and
> > work optimal on Debian.
>
> Fantastic
>
> > The other thing is that third party apps need to be compiled if you like
> > to use them. Until now several people do that for the apps they like to
> > run or that they are developing using debian as their development
> > platform. The problem for the users is that the deb lines for
> > sources.list are spread all over and there is no central way of getting
> > the newest apps through debs for people that are not necessarily
> > developers like we are. The other thing is that as developers, just doing
> > a make install would work but that usually messes up our systems,
> > especially as KDE has /usr as its prefix on debian. So it would be the
> > best if we could somehow collect our resources and schedule building debs
> > and providing them in a central place.
>
> Still not sure why KDE and these apps can't seem to make it into the formal
> debian unstable (and then the more stable) archive and mirrors, but
> apparently not - so ...
>
Read the FAQ at http://www.davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html
> > I talked with Dirk Müller already and some other guys that I use to work
> > with at KDE and we should provide that possibility through KDE on
> > ftp.kde.org. Wether that will work out just depends on how many people
> > would volunteer to participate.
>
> A good alternative - especially if you could set it up so that it had
> different sections for stable, unstable and development (or something) so
> that we could chose what.
>
> I am not sure how I could participate - I do have an always on, lightly
> used server supporting my family at home at the end of a cable modem, but
> my acceptable use conditions require that it is not used as a public server
> other than for a limited (<10) password controlled connections. I could
> perhaps do some regular builds (Its only a p2 400 with 128MB Ram, but it
> has loads of disk space).
>
> As for my time, I am travelling abroad (from the UK) between 3 and 4 days a
> week, so that pretty much limits what I could do. I am trying to do some
> light coding or bug fixing offline in the evenings when I am away - but
> last weeks attempt was feeble, I managed only an hour (working late and
> then eating seems to grab most of the time). I could devote a bit more
> when I am at home.
>
>
>
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>
> --
> Alan Chandler
> alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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