[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Packaging and LiveCD

[Dan Scott]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Ben Webb <bjwebb67 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> All neccessary packages for Evergreen are now packaged for debian and
> fedora, although there may still be some hiccoughs especially for the
> fedora packages (which I have mainly been testing in a chroot so far).

Wow! Nice progress. Question - are the packages visible yet? Evergreen
at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=evergreen&project=home%3Abjwebb%3Aevergreen
and OpenSRF at ?

> I've been looking at splitting up the debian package add enabling
> additional functionality - currently the evergreen-ils source package
> builds evergreen-ils (main code), evergreen-ils-client (the staff
> client) and evergreen-ils-python (the python modules). Similairly the
> opensrf source package builds opensrf and opensrf-python. Similarily,
> there could be -java packages when java support builds correctly. The
> packages could be split further, to have -perl, -c, -srfsh packages,
> or even indvidual components, but I question how useful that would be
> at this point in time (but maybe there is a demand for it).

It seems to be the norm to provide granular packages in Debian and
Fedora - split at least by programming language. Have you talked with
the packaging folks at Debian (#debian-devel ?) and Fedora
(#fedora-packaging) about what they require / would like to see?