[mythtv] Re: Packaging prereleases/CVS? (was: Next release?)

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:50:42PM -0800, Tim Harvey wrote:
> Just this week I decided to reinstall my system using FC1 and when I got
> to the point of needing to sync with CVS to fix a bug, I was trying to
> figure out a way that I could somehow 'not' do a 'make install' but
> package it instead so that I could easily move back and forth between it
> and released packages that you have provided everyone.  Needless to say,
> I'm pretty ignorant about spec files and what not and haven't taken the
> time to figure it all out.
> 
> I ended up biting the bullet and doing make installs to test my patch
> that I was working on.  Now I kind of wish I had a clean and simple way
> to get rid of everything.  I guess I can go through and do it all by
> hand.  Is it typical that a 'released' package goes in /usr/* and
> something hand-built goes in /usr/local/*?  I wasn't quite sure why your
> released packages used one tree, and the source put it elsewhere.

For one these are situations where packaging will not help. Developing
on sources (like the patch you created) should be done in the
field. After testing and cleaning up the patches, one can start to
think about packaging. ;)

About /usr vs /usr/local: That is standard behaviour on Linux. Localy
built packages should default to /usr/local and vendor supplied ones
in /usr. This makes it easier to identify your own (unpackaged) sources.

> Thank you so much for all the packages you maintain!  I don't quite
> understand how you have the time to do it all but I have used them
> several times now in my tinking with MythTV!

I'm unemployed ;)

Seriously though, the real workers are the developers like Isaac and
co. I am merely packaging their work. It was quite tought to get all
dependencies packaged, but now packaging maintainance is rather low.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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