Re: [Dragora-users] Repo and package building guidelines + meeting

[Lucas Sköldqvist]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 03:58:51PM -0300, Mateus Pinto Rodrigues wrote:
> Ok, so the dragora package building scene is slowly growing and we need
> some guidelines for better conformace and standards, it will make
> things more organized and also help newcomers. Also I think this is the
> right time to discuss this, a bit ahead of Dragora 3 release so we can
> try it on Dragora 2 and have it mature when D3 arrives. Probablye an
> utox/mumble meeting would be nice, Im free for the next days so you can
> schedule pretty much anytime. Ill leave here a couple points worth
> discussing.

Thanks for bringing this up. I will be around all of this weekend but
tonight would be best.

> 1- Currently we have three servers available from packagers: me,
> frusen and tom, I think we all should host everyone else's packages,
> this is simple done by hosting your own packages and using cron+rsync to
> mirror the other servers.

Good idea, I will start working on a document with some instructions.
 
> 2- Jul should be able to point to other mirros besides gungre.ch.
> Frusen, if you need any help with this you can contact me, be it
> related to DBs, testing or overall design.

Sure, I'm planning a new release this weekend.

> 3- We need a standard way of building packages, for example which flags
> should be included, static/dynamic, build environment, etc.

I use an autoconf-based template for my packages but some software use
other build systems and it would be good with templates for them.

It is also important with rules for the package names.

> 4- Creating a distributed mirror: I have talked about it in an email
> before we can discuss it further as I think it is worth, but not in
> dire need now.

Agreed, not urgent but wanted.