What configuration prefix ?
Hi,
I'm going to try to get gnome-libs to build some snapshot-style
packages from out of the CVS.
Where should we install this stuff?
I was thinking we could put everything under /opt/dsp
Where dsp = Debian Snapshots Project. Of course, dsp also stands for
"digital signal processor". Do you think people will get confused?
What do people think of using /opt? I think it's a better choice than
putting things under /usr/local. And we don't want to put things in
the FSSTND locations, because we want to be able to install these at
the same time as the released Debian packages without causing
conflicts.
Also, how's this for a naming scheme?
Regular Packages Snapshot Packages
---------------- -----------------
gnome-hello dsp-gnome-hello
libgnome0 dsp-libgnome0
libgnome-dev dsp-libgnome-dev
libgtkxmhtml0 dsp-libgtkxmhtml0
libgtkxmhtml-dev dsp-libgtkxmhtml-dev
libzvt0 dsp-libzvt0
libzvt-dev dsp-libzvt-dev
The idea is that both sets of packages can be installed at the same
time. By having the 'dsp-' prefix at the beginning of the name, the
packages have a nice sort order.
Another issue that the recent Gnome freeze just brought up: now there
are two branches of the CVS - a stable branch and an unstable branch.
I'll follow the stable branch for now with my snapshots. But how
should we handle the situation in the future where there are two
branches we want to track?
Cheers,
- Jim
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