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Hi folks, |
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I'm maintaining patches with fixes for dozens of packages for |
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quite some time. These patches are needed since releases are |
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often quite broken (ie. crosscompiling doesn't work) or there |
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are other things which make sysop's or distro maintainer's |
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life evrything but easy. |
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Most of the patches are just (little) fixes to get the packages |
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built properly or provide a finer build configuration. I had to |
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learn that such things tend to require quite a long time to |
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get into the upstream. |
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So I'm maintaining a repository of patches which is directly used |
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by my distro builder (I've got my own buildsystem a little bit |
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like emerge, but specialized on building for foreign systems |
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using sysroot'ed crosscompiling, etc, mainly for embedded systems) |
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Since many distros maintain their own patch repositories and |
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ivest mucht work in QM each by their own, I'd like to get these |
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efforts merged to one great OpenSource QM project. |
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The idea behind is: |
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+ Each individual release of a certain package is inspected |
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by its own. |
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+ The OSS-QM provides patches (hotfixes) for each individual |
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release, if necessary. |
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+ We've got several quality stamps, which an (maybe patched) |
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release can get, ie. |
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* clean builds |
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* clean installations |
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* relocation capabilities (ie. GNU's or FHS style) |
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* optimization capabilities (ie. can proper CFLAGS be passed ?) |
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* stability (open bugs ? unsolved problems ? ...) |
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... |
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I've written down some lines about this project in my wiki: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Maybe someone here's interested in it ? |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service |
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phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ |
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fax: +49 36207 519932 email: contact@×××××.de |
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cellphone: +49 174 7066481 |
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