Re: debian packages for 4.04/02 ?

Hi,
just to clarify "the problem" with afterimage. We do not intend to develop our own "builtin-afterimage". The differences between "ROOT libAfterImage" and "official" one are temporary. After adding/changing a couple of things related to vector graphics (inside libAfterImage/draw.c) I'm going to send a patch to author (Sasha Vasko). Hopefully will be done this week.

Regards. Valeriy

Christian Holm Christensen wrote:

> Hi Gerhard,
>
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:41 +0200, Gerhard Brandt wrote:
> > Fons Rademakers wrote:
> > > Hi Gerhard,
> > >
> > > we have no Debian machines to make these packages, if a Debian user can
> > > make the packages available we can make them available for download.
> >
> > Hi Fons,
> >
> > I offer to do the building then (also for later ROOT versions),
> > but i need some advice.
> >
> > For example i think a tag for 4.04/02 including the mentioned AfterImage
> > fixes is in order.
> > I don't think its a good idea to offer 4.04/02 deb files from the ROOT
> > page which include patches only documented on roottalk.
>
> If you like, you can change the configuration options in
> `build/package/debian/rules' to not include
> `--disable-builtin-afterimage' - that should do the right thing.
>
> > Also i don't know how you can then store the deb packages on the
> > ROOT page in a way that is useable by peoples apt sources.list
> > Christian will have to help with that.
>
> Assuming you have made a set of Debian packages, you can put them in
> some sort of hierarchy, and then run `dpkg-scanpackages' to create the
> needed `Packages file'.
>
> Generally, I put the packages I generate locally in
> `/root/debian/pool/local' in a maner similar to the official mirrors,
> and then run a script I've written (I've attached the script). This
> creates symlinks in `/root/debian/dists/testing/local/binary-i386'.
> Then I add `deb file:/root/debian testing local' into my
> `/etc/apt/sources.list'.
>
> So, if you do something similar, you can tar up the directory
> `/root/debian', and send that to Fons. Then he can unpack that
> somewhere, like `/var/www/root/debian' and direct people to put
>
> deb http://root.cern.ch/root/debian stable non-free
> deb http://root.cern.ch/root/debian testing non-free
> deb http://root.cern.ch/root/debian unstable non-free
>
> into their `/etc/apt/sources.list'. Please note the three variables at
> the top of the attached script, and edit them accordingly.
>
> Alternatively, Fons could install `dpkg' on his machine (there are
> non-native version available from
> `ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/dpkg/', and then he could run the
> script the on his machine, and all you need to provide is the package
> files themselves.
>
> > and finally we should synchronize this effort with PAIPIX i guess ... or
> > rather they with us.
>
> PAIPIX is based on Knoppix, so it may not use the same versions of all
> needed software as Debian does. However, they should be able to use an
> apt-get repository set up by ROOT.
>
> Yours,
>
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Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 13:59:49 MEST