[bt-devel] rpms

[Brook Humphrey]

On Saturday 05 May 2001 04:52 am, you wrote:
> Martin Gruner wrote:
> > Some ideas on conventions concerning rpm creation:
> > >From 1.0 on we should
> >
> > -always compile sword in statically (but not call the rpm "static", which
> > could be confusing [users do not know what is compiled in statically, qt,
> > kde, sword, ...])
> > -give detailed names to the rpms indicating their target distribution
> > better (e.g. mandrake_8 instead of mdk, redhat_7 instead of rh, ...)
> > -provide no sword rpms. that should be done on the sword project page
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword
> > (Brook, I'll add you to the project there. It would be good to offer the
> > module rpms there, categorized after module types and languages. Agreed?)
>
> This results in simpler install, but the instructions will be a lot
> different than they are now.  Will KDE desktop integration be in the RPM? 
> Can we take care of etc/ld.so.conf and sword.conf during the install?  This
> would further simplify things for users that have beginning knowledge of
> Linux.

sword.conf is already generated by the install so this is taken care of. You 
should only need the one bibletime rpm. 



>
> > Just proposals. Please comment.
> >
> > May I remind you that after the 1.0 release we want to take a development
> > break and have a time of promotion. Could you please make proposals on
> > what we could do therefore (slashdot article(?), newsforge etc.) and who
> > could do it?
>
> After 1.0 I will shortly have the documentation fixed.  Do we want to issue
> it as a patch?  or wait for the next release?
>
> > I'd like to have some logo that users can put on their webpages to link
> > to bibletime (like the gimp etc. logo). What do you think of that idea?
> > Do you know somebody who could do that (or could you do it)?
> >
> > Martin
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Fred Saalbach
> saalbach@sybercom.net

-- 

-----------------------------------------------------
Brook Humphrey
Mobile PC Medic
509-235-9107
http://www.webmedic.net
bah@webmedic.net
-----------------------------------------------------
My posting or sending this is NOT an invitation for spammers to say that
I've asked to be put on a mailing list.
-----------------------------------------------------