On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 12:29 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > That's a terrible excuse! With mingw we built the whole chain, nearly > a hundred packages, outside the distribution before we submitted a > single package to Fedora. In fact, we had a rolling build which built > the whole chain against (at the time) Fedora 8, 9, 10 on i386 and > x86_64. > > We even wrote a new tool (smock[1]) to automate the process. Excuse or not, it's what they asked me if they could do. I fine tuned their request to have minimal impact upon the rest of the infrastructure and forwarded the request along to FESCo. FESCo approved it, and asked that the Packaging Committee come up with the bare level pre-review items to clear out, such as legal and build from source issues. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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