On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Starlink Software wrote:
>
> > Main URL: http://dev.starlink.ac.uk/build/DEBIAN-3.0r3_i386/
> >
> > Module: starjava
> > Status: failed
> > Build Log: http://dev.starlink.ac.uk/build/DEBIAN-3.0r3_i386/logs/starjava.1106710591.log
>
> build/install/test OK, failed on the export target. Not ever having
> found a use for this, I've never tested it (in fact I'm not sure I
> even knew it was there). Assuming we agree this is a useful target
> to have in place, I can probably effect fixes for all packages in
> which it doesn't work without too much trouble.
Hi Mark,
the export target was supposed to be used for creating an archive of the
installed state of a package so that you could then just pass these out as
updates or releases (along with all the other dependencies). The simplest
use being just to untar/unzip the archives (possibly into an existing
starjava tree) and off you'd go.
In fact all the export targets are a little broken and need some work, the
main reason being that they prepend the package name onto all the archive
content, so cannot in fact be just unpacked. If Steve is going to do
RPM/whatever package-level releases I guess this will have to change soon.
Cheers,
Peter.
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