On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:32:05PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi, > I looked into packaging osinfo-db for Debian and looking at: > > https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/libosinfo/osinfo-db-20160728.tar.xz > > it looks quit different from https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db > . Would it be possible to ship a proper source tarball that: > > * contains a license file The tarball isn't supposed to contain anything other than the DB XML files. Indeed the way it is created is by running osinfo-db-export on the installed database directory, so it won't pick up anything other than the files in that dir, so no license file will be found there. > * contains the Makefile to execute and run the build so we can use the > preferred form of modificaation? You are *not* supposed to unpack the tarball manually. Run the osinfo-db-import tool, passing it the tarball, as described at https://libosinfo.org/download/ Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo