Re: Announcing LedgerSMB 1.2.12

["David Tangye" <..hidden..>]

1. I wonder whether it would be useful to have a simple system to generate a LSMB rpm from the tar, and then also have 'alien' to produce the .deb, for debian based (ubuntu etc) distros.

Perhaps a simple script: eg feed to LSMB version in an $. 

On ubuntu, yum is not the installer, so one might use 'apt-get' instead, except that on ubuntu, neither rpm-build nor rpmdevtools exist as packages. So the generation of the rpm needs to be on an appropriate distro, and its seems that Ubuntu is not appropriate.

2. Somewhere months ago, I recorded here where the cpan stuff failed to install some dependent stuff correctly on Ubuntu, so there needs to be something done there for tar ->.deb generation, and I suppose also for tar -> .rpm if its to then -> .deb for Ubuntu.

On Jan 27, 2008 11:33 AM, Mads Kiilerich <..hidden..> wrote:

I don't know anything about official rpms. But I can tell you one way to
make rpms yourself:

As root:
* yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools

As user:
* rpmdev-setuptree
* wget
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ledger-smb/ledgersmb-1.2.12.tar.gz
* (Read dists/rpm/ledgersmb.spec to see which cpan packages are missing)
* wget
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cpan/modules/by-module/Class/Class-Std-v0.0.8.tar.gz
* wget
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cpan/modules/by-module/Config/Config-Std-v0.0.4.tar.gz
* wget
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cpan/modules/by-module/Locale/Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.62.tar.gz
* rpmbuild -ta ledgersmb-1.2.12.tar.gz

As root:
* rpm -ihv ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ledgersmb-1.2.12-1.noarch.rpm


Developers:
What is dists/rpm/build.sh intended for? Official releases only? Please
add a comment to it. (It seems to not be complete, and it must be run by
root.)
I suggest you apply the attached patch, which adds some hints about how
to build rpms.

/Mads

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