Changes on build.pub.meego.com related to Project:KDE:xxx projects

[martin brook]

Maurice

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Maurice de la Ferte <
Maurice.Ferte at basyskom.com> wrote:

> Hello Mates,
>
> I like give some words about PA on build.pub.meego.com and the
> collaboration
> with the Mer project. Some of you might have been noticed that most of the
> packages hosted on build.pub.meego.com do not build anymore against MeeGo.
> Well MeeGo is dead and for a while we are already building against Mer.
> Please note, the 'MeeGo_1.2_OSS' repository we are still building against
> is a unmaintained local binary blob of the related build.meego.com project
> (Great thanks to 'lbt' for providing us this blob).
>
> The scope of the Mer project is to build a stable core Linux distribution
> and by this many dependencies needed for Plasma Active were missing.
> We temporary solved this by creating the Project:KDE:Mer_Extras OBS project
> as a place for all needed build dependencies and stuff for what is not
> inside
> Mer. Over the time of weeks the Project:KDE:Mer_Extras grows up to 170
> packages
> which is INHO to big for a single project. By this the Mer people offered
> us
> help to strip down our PA build dependency tree, we decided to kick all
> dependencies just needed for documentation. Great thanks to 'sage' who
> striped down the additional build dependencies tree below to 30 packages.
>
> Those additional build dependencies are part of 'CE:UX:PlasmaActive'
> project
> and the 'CE_UX_PlasmaActive_<architecture>' repository inside e.g.
> 'Project:KDE:Devel' stands for it. In my option now is the time to cleanup
> and delete unneeded stuff like outdated build repositories and projects
> related to PA. Following stuff I like to delete:
>
> Repositories in Project:KDE:Devel
>   - MeeGo_1.1_Core
>   - Trunk
>   - Trunk_Testing
>
> Repositories in Project:KDE:Trunk:Testing
>   - Mer_Extras_armv6l
>   - Mer_Extras_armv7hl
>   - Mer_Extras_armv7l
>   - Mer_Extras_i586
>
> If we need in future additional 'build' dependencies we should add them
> first
> into our Project:KDE:Devel project and after success we should send a
> submitrequest for the related package to 'CE:UX:PlasmaActive'.
>
> Cheers
>
> Maurice
>
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