[Releasing] Testing and verification of Alpha package

Fathi Boudra fboudra at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 20:42:48 CET 2012


> > Isn't it a bit of a regression to just provide one huge tarball in
> > this case? It would be much more useful to provide qtbase,
> > qtjsbackend, qtdeclarative seperately as tarballs so these can be
> > packaged individually?
>
> Agreed. We should provide one tarball per Git repository. There's no need for
> a tarball for qt5.git.

+1

> The proper process for building should be configure-or-qmake && make && make
> install on each package, in succession. Unfortunately, this requires knowing
> the build order...

It isn't different from dependencies between different source
packages. A packager needs to figure out build dependencies/requires.

Cheers,

Fathi



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