Re: IPFire Building Packages

[Ghislain Hachey <ghachey.lists@gmail.com>]

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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?

  
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