Re: [ROOT] root rpms

From: Dmytro Kustov (Dmytro.Kustov@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 18:33:32 MET


   Hi all!

Yes, I made ebulds for 3.03/xx versions. As I remember,
all of them are in unstable branch. I haven't made any
checks for several months because I'm not involved in
any work. But next week I can review all you need.
So, send me all info as cocerned to Gentoo port.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Fons Rademakers wrote:

> It was removed because Dmytro told me that he was working on a better
> makefile.
> 
> Cheers, Fons.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 21:59, Rene Brun wrote:
> > Hi Dejan,
> > 
> > Early this year, I received the following mail from 
> > Dmytro.Kustov@cern.ch
> > 
> > "  I'm using Gentoo Linux OS on my machine. It builds itself only from
> > sources. ROOT is included in its "portage tree". I provided them a new
> > version 3.05/03 (they use 3.03/04). During installation it patches
> > Makefile.linux. To simplify the installation process I may provide you a
> > Gentoo's Makefile to include it in the future ROOT version (3.05/04?).
> > Will you include it in the future ROOT release?"
> > 
> > Dmitry sent a Makefile.linuxgentoo that was introduced in CVS, but
> > removed later by Fons for a reason that I cannot remember.
> > 
> > Dmitry, Fons, any news about this implementation?
> > 
> > Rene Brun
> > 
> > On 
> > Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Dejan Nikic wrote:
> > 
> > > Speaking of different packages and stuff is Gentoo supported, or does
> > > anyone have ebuilds? I'd be more than happy to make one if there is enough
> > > people using gentoo out there.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Justin Findlay wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks Valeri and Christian.  I forgot, duh, how ROOT is supported on so
> > > > many flavors and that ./configure && make has always worked out of the box
> > > > at least on my systems.  Bravo the ROOT team.
> > > >
> > > > On 15 Dec 2003, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The package building stuff (for both Red Hat and Debian GNU/Linux) is
> > > > > somewhat out of date. It's one (of many) of my projects to freshen that
> > > > > up a bit.  I've already sent some patches to Fons, that'll make the
> > > > > packaging work smoother.  These patches hasn't been merged upstream yet,
> > > > > which is a bit of a show stopper for the rest of the changes.
> > > >
> > > > Great.  I'm gald you're maintaining the .deb and .rpm packaging.  It's
> > > > useful stuff.
> > > >
> > > > > > [justin@archimedes justin]$ uname -a
> > > > > > Linux archimedes.adam-ondi-ahman 2.4.22-1.2129.nptlcustom #3 Tue Dec 2 01:07:47 MST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Were I more rpm savvy I would offer to maintain ROOT's rpm
> > > > > > functionality myself or point to someone who could and would because
> > > > > > rpm remembers what it has done, when I always don't, and other reasons
> > > > > > rpms supersede (at least prebuilt) tar balls I shall not enumerate
> > > > > > here.
> > > > >
> > > > > Active testers are ofcourse always welcome. Especially if you can
> > > > > provide detailed information (not just the output of `uname -a` - it
> > > > > doesn't really tell me anything but your kernel version and CPU type -
> > > > > pretty useless when you're dealing with something like building RPM or
> > > > > Debian packages).
> > > >
> > > > I had searched once for a command-line utility that could browse through
> > > > the wealth of system specifications and query such nominative information
> > > > as you imply (among the output of rpm's commands themselves), but I was
> > > > delighted to find uname because it gave me something.  Shucks.
> > > >
> > > > > I agree that it would be a good idea if the ROOT team could build RPMs
> > > > > and Debian packages as part of their release cycle.  Valeri has a point
> > > > > in saying that there are a lot of compilers available for GNU/Linux.
> > > > > Therefor, I'd suggest that the ROOT team got a set of machines running
> > > > > off the shelves version of
> > > > >
> > > > >   Disribution       Status      Version | CPU
> > > > >   -----------------+----------+---------+-------
> > > > >   Red Hat          | `stable' | 9.0     | i386
> > > >     Fedora           | 'stable' | 1[0]    | i386
> > > > >   Debian GNU/Linux | `woody'  | 3.0r3   | i386
> > > > >   SuSE             | `stable' | ???     | i386
> > > > //Fedora (Yarrow) is now billited as the stable release in current tenure
> > > > //from redhat.
> > > >
> > > > > and build the packages for those systems, using the system default
> > > > > compiler, and what ever optinal packages they can dig up.  However, the
> > > > > optional packages should be widely available in a native form (that is,
> > > > > as a binary package - not a custom build).
> > > > >
> > > > > Of course, if ROOT would choose a different licence, like say the LGPL
> > > > > or even the GPL, and do away with the clause the prohibits
> > > > > redistribution of derived work with out an explicit consent, ROOT could
> > > > > go into `contrib' (or even `main') branch of Debian GNU/Linux anf the
> > > > > Debian auto-builders would take care of doing regular binary package
> > > > > build of ROOT for Debian GNU/Linux.  I have no idea whether Red Hat has
> > > > > or will have a similar feature.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully soon.  Fedora is supposed to point the way to debian-esque like
> > > > bliss for us red- and fedora-hatted people.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Justin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 
> 



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