[quake3] Re: [lists] [quake3] Binaries!!!11111

Zachary J. Slater zakk at timedoctor.org
Thu Jan 26 12:13:34 EST 2006


vincent at cojot.name wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Zachary J. Slater wrote:
> 
>> Per Hansen wrote:
>>> On GNU/Linux I would like to see a "debian" dir included in the
>>> sourcepackage.
> 
>> No.
>>
>> Distributions can do whatever they want with the package once they get 
>> it, otherwise they get nothing special inside besides patches they want
>> included for interesting or serious reasons. Debian directories in
>> source packages are neither serious nor interesting.
>> (This is final unless somebody buys Timbo and/or Angst a mac in
>> the cause of Debian, at which point I will reconsider)
> 
> Does that include all the different dists and platforms?
> 
> In ioq2, I have the Solaris pkg templates integrated into the source so 
> that people can easily rebuild the Solaris packages if they want to. 
> Also, I suppose that whatever is debianized for ioq3 will find its way 
> into their mirrors but for Solaris, the 'ioq3' source is most likely the 
> only single place where I can 'publish' the pkg templates which I will 
> be developping. Or would you just want me to publish this stuff along 
> with the installers?
> 


I can host whatever packages or extra files any distribution needs if 
you e-mail them to me, or put them up in some temporary place.
(big files don't go into svn, they go on filesingularity)

-- 
- Zachary J. Slater
zakk at timedoctor.org
zacharyslater at gmail.com



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