Nightingale RPM or Repo

[Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor]

On 03/29/2012 09:15 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
> <zombiegenerator at aol.com>  wrote:
>> Let me know if you have an update :-)
> Well, I have good news and I have bad news. First the bad:
>
> This thing is a nightmare to package. The whole build process is
> designed for an individual to do a personal install. Not only does it
> bundle a number of libraries, but it downloads two dependencies as
> part of the build process, one of which is a binary package, so it's
> arch specific. It's going to take quite a bit of work to make it
> acceptable to distros that don't allow bundled libraries and unless
> they make it a priority, I don't think it will happen anytime soon.
>
> Additionally the main makefile doesn't even support an install target.
> You have to go into a system specific folder (linux, windows, Solaris,
> etc) and all it does then is copy in a few system specific files to
> the build location and tar it up.
>
> The good news is I made a very hackish SRPM which you can try out. It
> installs into /opt/nightingale because it doesn't install anything to
> the appropriate place. It also doesn't provide a desktop file so there
> will be no menu entry in Gnome/KDE, etc. The SRPM is quite big because
> the source is 43MB by itself and it downloads two other sizable files
> as part of the build.
>
> Richard
Man,

You're THE man. Attach the link to download the SRPM :)

-- 
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com>
Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>
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