From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: Git as a BuildRequires (packaging) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:12:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20081202101223.GD19355@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <20081202023004.GA30372@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20081202030922.GC6804@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5dNcufZ4prhark0F" Cc: Josh Boyer , git@vger.kernel.org, skvidal@fedoraproject.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 02 11:15:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L7SIF-00069q-41 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:15:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752505AbYLBKM1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 05:12:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752146AbYLBKM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 05:12:26 -0500 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([212.40.97.103]:42448 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751810AbYLBKM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 05:12:26 -0500 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2ED3580CF; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:12:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8480C4465E; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:12:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 34E6A11901A1; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:12:23 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081202030922.GC6804@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --5dNcufZ4prhark0F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:09:23PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > So, what do the git gurus recommend? I'm not sure if other > > distros have tackled this problem before, but some kind of > > commonality for the 'how do you package things that need to build > > against git' question would be nice. >=20 > AFAIK, cgit is the only program that behaves in this way, and it doesn't > seem to be in Debian at all. So you might be the first to deal with it. > :) We have it in Frugalware[1], and it's not a that big problem: the cgit Makefile clearly states the supported git version, you just have to download it "manually" (specify it in the spec file in case of Fedora) in case you want an offline build (what every distro wants). 1: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=3Dfrugalware-current.git;a= =3Dblob;f=3Dsource/network-extra/cgit/FrugalBuild;hb=3DHEAD --5dNcufZ4prhark0F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk1CgcACgkQe81tAgORUJa/8gCeJnZt9qQXsdfssv0DqOfTWp7l 8X8AmgJ/ok4mgY3aI/EFeeroqs+3yRPP =7Rgq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5dNcufZ4prhark0F--