<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">GDM</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joedemar@gmail.com">joedemar@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 4 May 2010 08:39<br>
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu] Introducing myself<br>To: Alan Boudreault <<a href="mailto:aboudreault@mapgears.com">aboudreault@mapgears.com</a>><br><br><br>Hello,<br>thank you for your answer<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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Glad to see you are interrested in helping UbuntuGIS project. Do you have any<br>
experience in debian/ubuntu packaging ? or with launchpad PPAs ?<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote></div><div>I have experienced debian/ubuntu packaging such as compiling and <br>
packaging in .deb format. No launchpad PPA yet.<br><br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>
</div>I'm not sure to understand what you mean. I suppose you are describing your<br>
current installed system and you would like to compile packages on it? It is<br>
not recommended to test the packages on a installed system like that.. Most of<br>
packagers use a closed environment to test the packages, like<br>
pbuilder/cowbuilder. This way, we are sure the packages work great on a fresh<br>
install of the OS and that there are no missing dependencies.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Crystal clear! that's the answer I was looking for. <br></div><div class="im"><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
A first step would be to create your personnal PPA on launchpad:<br>
<a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA" target="_blank">https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Ok I will gladly do that<br> <br></div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Get familiar with PPAs and test your packages there. After we can easily copy<br>
your packages in ubuntugis from there and we could add you as uploaders in<br>
UbuntuGIS PPA.<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote></div><div>That would be an honor! I hope that one day I can achieve that.<br>For now I think I have some homework to do and I'd better start<br>as soon as I can.<br><br><br>Best regards<br>
<br>Giuseppe <br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>
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Alan Boudreault<br>
Mapgears<br>
<a href="http://www.mapgears.com" target="_blank">http://www.mapgears.com</a><br>
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