On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 01:59:16PM +0100, Knut Omang wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 10:47 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 06:28:24PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > >
> > > Am Donnerstag, den 05.01.2017, 16:09 -0700 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 08:01:07PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is very exciting news! Please feel free to send any patches or
> > > > pull requests to improve the packaging, or otherwise!
> > >
> > > Expect patches from me. Before starting a bigger review, I will wait
> > > for the pull request https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/pull/50
> >
> > Thanks, Talat is working to address your's and Jason's feedback.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I hope that
> > > > significant parts of the the debian/ dir can be maintained upstream
> > > > like Redhat is going to do for their packaging.
> > >
> > > That is doable as long as the future Debian maintainers will have
> > > commit access. Otherwise the debian directory will get out of sync
> > > soon.
> >
> > I don't think so, we are pretty fast to accept pull requests, and
> > especially distro related ones from verified committers. However if it
> > stops future Debian maintainer to manage this package upstream, we will
> > give write access without doubts.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > PS: How will you create the release tarballs?
> >
> > Via github interface.
> > https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/
>
> It seems that interface is only available for those with write access to the github repo
> which does not cover the (for me at least) common use case that I want to built my own
> slightly modified test .rpm of something. Then users will end up creating tarballs manually,
> or outside the build logic, with potentials for mistakes, not to mention the 
> documentation need to tell users this.
>
> Isn't a dist target a well established standard the rdma_core packages should 
> support for simplicity and uniformity?

I have a long standing task for myself to connect rdma-core to SuSe's
open build facilities [1]. It will give us RPM and DEB packages.

[1] https://build.opensuse.org

>
> Thanks,
> Knut
>
> >
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