Things we ought to do to improve our packaging

[Neal Becker]

I have to manually look at each update to be sure that the mercurial
version is compatible with the tortoisehg version for each of the supported
releases.  Can't automate that.


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Nikolaj Sjujskij <sterkrig at myopera.com>wrote:

> Den 2013-08-08 10:29:56 skrev Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:
>
>
>  On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 19:03 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>>> > I think this also needs to be inclusive of builds for packaging systems
>>> > (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Centos, Solaris, Pypi, etc.). These actually
>>> > suffer from more or less the same problems even though the distribution
>>> > model is different. So we should be building nightlies and release
>>> > builds for these systems and be more directly responsible for quality
>>> > and timeliness here as well.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I don't think there's anything here source-based
>>> distro packaging has much to do with, right?
>>>
>>
>> I don't know, but I suspect there is. How does one grab the equivalent
>> of a nightly on Gentoo?
>>
>  Basically users just install mercurial "from mercurial" (9999-version):
>
>  % emerge -pvq mercurial
> [ebuild   R   ] dev-vcs/mercurial-9999  USE="zsh-completion -bugzilla
> -emacs -gpg {-test} -tk" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 (-python2_5) -python2_6"
>
>  % hg version
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.7+12-df2155ebf502+20130807)
>
>
>
>  How long do I have to wait to install 2.7 if the packager is on vacation?
>>
>  I'm not sure what exactly do you mean by "have to wait", but bumping a
> package locally is a matter of these commands:
>  # cd /usr/portage/dev-vcs/mercurial
>  # cp mercurial-2.6.3.ebuild mercurial-2.7.ebuild
>  # ebuild mercurial-2.7.ebuild digest
>
> Provided nothing is changed in build system. Overlay (third-party repo)
> maintainer can copy ebuild and hack on it, then publish his/her work (like
> I maintain ebuilds for stable branch).
>
>
>  Is there stuff that requires manual intervention from release to release
>> like adding new files?
>>
>  Er... Like what? Mercurial ebuild installs only a portion of files from
> contrib/, and automatic bump would miss new files worth installing, if
> that's what you mean.
>
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