[23] in athena10
Re: Repository organization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Dec 27 18:17:15 2007
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:16:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Greg Hudson wrote:
> /mit/debathena/packages/manual-config - These are just empty
> packages with provides and conflicts declarations, right? Are they
> auto-generated? If so we presumably don't need sources for them.
They also have dependencies copied from the non-manual config package that
they provide. They are auto-generated. See
/mit/debathena/packages/manual-config/make-manual-config for the script
the generates them; there's also a script to upload them to the repository
(do-upload in the same directory).
> /mit/debathena/packages/contrib - I can't find evidence that this
> stuff is actually built and deployed anywhere; correct me if I'm
> wrong.
Yes, this stuff is not yet deployed anywhere except (e.g.) in the SIPB
office. Barnowl will probably get put there once we package it.
> After snapshotting stuff, I plan to work on adding a rules file to
> debathena-config-build-common to handle the lack of boilerplate
> autotools goo in athena source directories, following tabbott's
> suggestion.
This is not important and easy to change later, but you may want to put it
in a different package, since it's perhaps outside the scope of
debathena-config-build-common.
-Tim Abbott
