Release tarballs for OLPC software?

[Robin Norwood]

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?

Thanks,

-RN

-- 
Robin Norwood
Red Hat, Inc.

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