[csw-maintainers] A question of naming, in our svn repository

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Jun 30 08:28:23 CEST 2010


Hi Phil,

Am 29.06.2010 um 23:56 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>>> ie: a bunch of "legacy" stuff, that hasnt even been packaged through
>>> svn, and does not follow our existing standards. You cant even type
>>> "make" in the directories.
>>
>> The standard is to put non-GAR recipes in legacy, so they do conform
>> to the standard ;-)
>
> If it's not documented, it's not a standard :)
>
> Nor is it a useful standard even if it were.. how do you use these
> "legacy" directories to actually make a package?

You see what patches and options the previous maintainer used and then  
make
a GAR recipe with similar options :-) I am currently struggling to  
rebuild
x3270 against an updated libicu and my package looks different from the
existing one - and there is no recipe for me to look at at all.


Best regards

   -- Dago




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