Bug#406335: Can i be of some help here with the packaging
Paul "TBBle" Hampson wrote:
>
> > Can i help at all here?
>
> Please.
Ok do we have a general plan for building? are we going to create GNU
make makefile(s) I don't see this as too much of a challenge just
"stuff" to do? It may be easier to start clean rather than fight scons
in to submission. Or have i missed an older package that has already
been converted?
>
> Just as a general note, I bought a new laptop, and although it's now fast
> enough to run the viewer, it's AMD64 and I've not yet had time to set up
> for slviewer development.
No worries, if you want to get running very quickly with out much
thinking :-) then just do
http://www.byteme.org.uk/secondlife-amd64/compiling-the-client.html
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> In parallel, work's gotten quite busy, as we're building towards a release
> so I'm not sure I'm going to be able to offer too much more work on the
> slviewer package for the next few months, although I should be in a
> position
> to build-test and fix bugs, and I might have an older PowerPC machine
> online
> (not fast enough to run it, but can smoketest compilation) soon.
yea works a pain, gets in the way of SL. We can in theory build test
with pbuilder as well cross arch.
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> I don't think I'll have time to do version upgrades though.
I seem to be keeping on top of this with my binary releases pretty well.
>
> What'd prolly really help is if someone were to organise a git repository.
Ooooh git. I could *in theory* run a repo but it will be on a broadband
connection and i can't sustain huge numbers of people working off it,
but just a dev team would be fine.
>
> That was always my plan once we were in shape for Debian, but I haven't
> thought through how such a thing should work in detail though,
> particularly
> in relation to dpatch.
>
> I understand there's some kind of git/quilt combination but I've not
> looked
> at it before.
I think the dpatch/quilt should work a treat. I don't know how it
integrates with git though. Maybe we should start with manual
dpatch/quilt and no git. You can have a working build with 7 patches and
some of them are added features such as openAL and mozlib.
I think plan #1 is create a makefile for 1.18.4.3 that will give us a
working start point for debianisation.
I will try to ITP and package c-ares soon as well. I've got another
package in my queue that i must finish first.
Robin
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