More about x-packages

[Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade]

Rémi Cardona wrote:
> pcpa at mandriva.com.br a écrit :
>
>>   Currently, I am experimenting with git-archive to generate a tarball,
>> and git-format-patch to generate the patches.
>
> What's wrong with using make distcheck? To me it's one of the major
> benefits of using autotools in the first place.

  I have nothing agains't distcheck. But at the moment, it is also adding
some generated files to the tarball, the X Server packages increases, after
bz2'ed by around 2MB, but still this isn't the major issue, as I believe
it could be fixed, if considered wrong, in "make distcheck" itself.
  I am experiencing with managing releases by adding local tags, and having
local patches in local git branches. So, using git-archive and 
git-format-patch
seens a natural/automatable approach to generate data that is submited to
a build system. The major drawback is that usually tarballs from trusted 
sites
come with a mdsum/sha/whatever authentication, and I experienced some 
oposition
here, so this is still an experiment, and I may still move back to storing
binary tarballs, but I still want to have local patches in git, instead of
generating and mantaining them "by hand".

>
> Cheers,
>
> Rémi
>
Paulo