[Olsr-dev] /usr/local patch again

Hans-Christoph Steiner (spam-protected)
Wed Jun 6 17:59:01 CEST 2012



On 06/06/2012 11:46 AM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> which part of
> 
>>>>>>> I would very much prefer you do some more testing on that patch, and
>>>>>>> coordinate with Saverio, since he reported that the patch did not
>>>>>>> work for
>>>>>>> him
> 
> is it that you don't understand?

I do understand and have been talking with him.  Sorry that wasn't
clear.  I also have directly read the openwrt packaging code, and am
working on setting up an openwrt nightly build so we don't have to have
Saverio as a 'single point of failure' for verifying openwrt builds ;).

.hc

> 
> On 06-06-12 17:42, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me that something else is going on with the /usr/local
>> patch.  To me, this is a simple patch that is easily tested and its the
>> kind of thing I've done many many times.  For example I already maintain
>> 34 packages in Debian and 42 packages in Fink/Mac OS X.  I've also
>> managed releases for Pure Data on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, embedded
>> Linux, Android, iOS, etc., and various other related things over the
>> years.
>>
>> Is there a reason that I'm not seeing why this change which won't break
>> the build and only affects the install is more sensitive to you two,
>> Ferry and Henning, than changes to the core, which were committed
>> without such testing?
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 06/06/2012 11:10 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> Yes, we SHOULD test the results before we put it into something like a
>>> debian release.
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Ferry Huberts<(spam-protected)> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06-06-12 16:27, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yup, there have been updates since then.  Plus I have done more
>>>>> testing,
>>>>> and including it in the Debian package is also more testing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> still, I'd like Saverio to tell us it works for him ;-)
>>>> (this patch has some impact on our build structure, so I'd like to
>>>> be sure
>>>> it works before putting in the work to convert everything)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .hc
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I would very much prefer you do some more testing on that patch, and
>>>>>> coordinate with Saverio, since he reported that the patch did not
>>>>>> work for
>>>>>> him
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06-06-12 16:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:56 AM, Roland Stigge wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 06/06/2012 11:36 AM, Teco Boot wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How can we get olsrd 0.6.3 in Debian? Backport to Squeeze?
>>>>>>>>> Roland?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Expect a Debian package soon.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the note,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Roland
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you have any specific goals besides the upstream version bump?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm going to try including my prefix + libdir + /usr/local patch and
>>>>>>> change the packaging.  It should simplify it since it brings the
>>>>>>> olsrd build
>>>>>>> system closer to a standard Makefile. I can do it today.  Could
>>>>>>> we include
>>>>>>> this in the updated package?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, the script olsrd-adhoc-setup is now included in the olsrd
>>>>>>> source
>>>>>>> package, so it can be removed from the Debian package.  It is not
>>>>>>> installed
>>>>>>> by the olsrd Makefile tho.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .hc
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Ferry Huberts
>>>>
>>>>
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