Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:<br>
<br>
>On Sunday 22 May 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote:<br>
>> So, what I'm doing right now for kdesupport is to create one<br>
>> CMakeLists.txt, which contains all the contained projects (automoc4,<br>
>> phonon, attica, akonadi, ...) via the externalproject()-feature from<br>
>> CMake.<br>
>> What it does, is it gets and updates all the sources from git,<br>
>configures,<br>
>> builds and installs them.<br>
>> So it feels almost like it did before.<br>
><br>
>Unfortunately, this is of no use for us packagers because we are banned<br>
>by <br>
>policy (and at least in Fedora, this is enforced by the build system)<br>
>from <br>
>downloading stuff during build. We can only work from tarballs. (If we<br>
>want to <br>
>package a snapshot, we have to check it out, tar it, then package the <br>
>resulting tarball.)<br>
<br>
The same is true for Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
Scott K<br>