Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Trying to master the Builder

[Dmitry Samoyloff]

At Wed, 26 May 2010 22:22:23 +0200,
Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> 
> Dmitry Samoyloff schreef:
> > At Tue, 25 May 2010 23:47:40 +0200,
> > Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > So, the workflow, as I see it, should be like that:
> > 
> > 1. Build my own deltah mirror (at least partial) as described in
> >    HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution [1].
> 
> Actually, it'll be your own Hardy mirror, from which you will derive a 
> deltah repo with Builder.
> 
> If you're short on bandwith I could see about copying my own local repo 
> to DVDs and sending them to you. I believe there's a tool that makes 
> that somewhat easy, but I've never used it.

Thank you very much, the bandwidth is not a problem. What I'm short of is disk
space :-) I'm going to clean up my hard disks or get a new one maybe. I hope
to setup everything before next week.

> > 2. Make my changes to the Builder, so it would support a new version of
> >    Gnash.
> > 3. Test my mirror locally.
> > 4. Send a Builder patch to the mailing list.
> 
> Or put the patch in bzr branch I can merge.

OK.

> >> Alternatively, you could limit yourself to hardy main (so not include 
> >> -security/-updates/-backports and universe) in your debmirror. We don't 
> >> do 64 bit, so you can skip amd64 in any case.
> > 
> > But where gnash-0.8.7 should go actually, main or backports?
> 
> The deltah-backports component is provided but not supported by us. 
> Everything in Builder is supported, so I suggest you put it in the main 
> deltah component.

OK.