[OSGeo-Discuss] packaging mailing list

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

I am also in favor of making this a generic list.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 10/29/2013 08:36 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> "Are we sure...?"
>
> The only things certain in life are death and taxes.  ;-)
>
> More seriously, there is probably enough *nix specific stuff to be 
> discussed to make it worthwhile, but it could as well be simply called 
> "packaging" and open to all platform packagers, however we may find 
> that *nix packagers will get bored of windows issues and vice-versa. 
> All this to say that either name works for me.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 13-10-28 12:49 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> Are we sure there's enough "Linux" specific packaging dicsussions to not
>> make it a more generic list that covers issues that apply to osgeo4w,
>> *BSD, OS X, mobile platforms (not mention Cygwin, Macports, homebrew,
>> etc...)?
>>
>> Ubuntu and Debian already have lists specific to them. Or is this the
>> RPM world trying to collaborate?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> On 10/22/2013 06:02 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> +1 on the "linux-packaging" name.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Angelos
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/21/2013 08:19 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>>> Hi Angelos,
>>>>
>>>> I like the idea. If the goal is to focus on Linux packaging, then
>>>> perhaps the list should be named "linux-packaging", to leave room for
>>>> other lists for other platforms if/when needed (e.g. 
>>>> windows-packaging).
>>>>
>>>> FYI, once you are ready you should create a SAC ticket to have the
>>>> list created, using the "System Admin" component at
>>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> On 13-10-18 11:40 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> There have been some IRC discussions between Fedora-GIS and 
>>>>> openSUSE Geo
>>>>> maintainers to join forces (as possible) regarding the packaging of
>>>>> geospatial applications.
>>>>>
>>>>> We feel that such packaging projects (DebianGIS, UbuntuGIS, ELGIS,
>>>>> Fedora-GIS, App:Geo, Arch AUR etc)  could at least share patches,
>>>>> workarounds, ideas, maybe even some code (especially when being on a
>>>>> common RPM or DEB format).
>>>>>
>>>>> Then we thought: What if there was a common mailing list that all
>>>>> GNU/Linux packagers could join and discuss? And who would be 
>>>>> better to
>>>>> host such a list than OSGeo?
>>>>>
>>>>> So this is the proposal: Lets create an OSGeo "packaging" mailing 
>>>>> list
>>>>> and lets work together. At first we can announce new packages being
>>>>> created for every distro out there. Then perhaps we can share some
>>>>> tickets etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> We *know* that every distro has its own ways of doing things and 
>>>>> we are
>>>>> not proposing merging, but collaborating as much as possible...
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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