Re: IPFire Building Packages

From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: IPFire Building Packages
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:35:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1404729327.2254.3.camel@rice-oxley.tremer.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53BA6D79.2070900@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 17:50 +0800, Ghislain Hachey wrote:
> On 7/7/14, 17:22, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > Are you sure that subversion needs apr at runtime? It certainly needs
> > the library, but I think that everything that is needed by subversion at
> > runtime should be in the core system already.
> >
> > We had a subversion package which was dropped in 2008, because the
> > IPFire project switched to git and there was no one who wanted to
> > maintain subversion any more.
> >
> > http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=a91ca65e82da80139f0e0675def755561ec7d478
> >
> >> >Long story, but I'm curious about why apache makes used of bundled third
> >> >party sources here, is this a special case that requires to go against
> >> >what's encouraged?
> > APR is a part of apache. Some distributions simply create a subpackage
> > for apr as it is usually not needed at runtime, just for development.
> >
> 
> OK, that all makes sense. So I might as well just point the subversion 
> ./configure script to use the ones in httpd sources for the build and be 
> done with it. I don't mind maintaining the package (and other orphan 
> packages that I may want to use from time to time). What does this 
> usually entail? Just following the upstream project for bug and security 
> fixes and re-building new sources when that happens?

Yes, it is basically all that. Not much work actually, but it needs to
be done. If everyone does a little slice of it we will have a great
distribution here.

Following upstream especially for security announcements, updating the
package accordingly or every once in a while. It is not necessary to
follow every single release, but it is nice to have a recent version on
the system.

And if there are some users experiencing problems with the package,
maybe give them some help. That does not contain explaining them how to
use SVN for example, but if there is something that works on other
systems but is broken on IPFire, it would be great looking into that.

What other packages/add-ons did you build?

-Michael

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