CPack 2.6 and downstream packagers

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org>:

This thread was originally posted by me (wrongly) on kde-buildsystem@  
instead of kde-packager@, see  
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.buildsystem/3127 for the  
top of the thread.

> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>
>> - they keep packaging as they have done until now, as if CPack 2.6
>> cannot properly package .deb and .rpm
>
> do I understand it correctly that cpack only generates src.rpms? or does it
> create binary rpms?

CPack 2.6 native RPM is binary only. Using CMakeUserUseRPMTools.cmake  
(which works with CMake 2.4 and 2.6) you can build both source and  
binary RPMs.

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators#RPM_.28Unix_Only.29
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeUserUseRPMTools

The same is valid for Debian packages:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:CPackPackageGenerators#DEB_.28UNIX_only.29

> the mailing list for packagers is kde-packager at kde.org

Cross-posting there, too.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)