Release tarballs for OLPC software?

[Robin Norwood]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:38:48 -0400
Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> So after working on this list:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList#Easy
> 
> It turns out there simply aren't tarball releases easily available for
> some of the packages (I noted the ones I couldn't find above).  I
> talked to Scott, and he says:
> 
> """
> You can download tarballs directly from our gitweb instance
> with a URL like:
>   http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/olpc-contents;a=snapshot;h=olpccontents-2.0
> 
> ...but the aforementioned git issue with submodules means you'd need
> two source lines, one for the main git module and one for the
> submodule.  Hrm.  I can make sure the submodule uses the same tag as
> the parent, so both of the source lines can be constant (using the
> %{version} macro)...
> 
> Maybe I should just suck it up and post tarballs somewhere.
> """
> 
> So, my question is, do we need to ask Scott to put tarballs online
> somewhere for these packages, or can the SRPMS at
> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/repos/joyride/ count as the upstream
> sources, since they contain the tarballs we'd build from anyway?
> 
> Does anyone know the answer to this?

I found a partial answer here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL

A checkout from source control is acceptable if needed, though tarballs
are preferred.  Next time I take a pass at packaging some of the things
from the wishlist I'll look to see if I can find the SCM and a tag to
build from instead of a tarball.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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