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Title: Do we need a RPM? Post by: bvdp on April 29, 2015, 09:20:16 PM Let me know if you think an RPM is valuable.
The RPM I'm generating is done via the program "alien". Unfortunately, this is not the same as a native RPM and does have some flaws (mainly with permissions in some of the target directories). Currently, RPM downloads are only 5% of the total MMA downloads ... so my thought is "why bother". Yes, I know I could generate proper RPM packages by running a Linux distribution in a virtual machine. But, frankly, it's a pain. So, unless there is a compelling reason to continue with this or (better!) if someone can point me to an easy script to create a proper RPM I will drop it on the next version of MMA. Comments welcome. Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: sciurius on October 27, 2015, 12:54:22 PM FAWC,
http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/mma-15.09a-1.fc22.noarch.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/mma-15.09a-1.fc22.src.rpm Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: bvdp on October 27, 2015, 04:44:16 PM FAWC, http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/mma-15.09a-1.fc22.noarch.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/mma-15.09a-1.fc22.src.rpm Is it okay to add this to my webpage? Will you continue to create these? Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: sciurius on October 27, 2015, 07:22:08 PM Is it okay to add this to my webpage? Yes, that's okay. Quote Will you continue to create these? At least I can try... Just let me know when there's a new version and what the changes are. Building the rpm is fairly trivial. Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: sciurius on November 27, 2015, 04:12:29 PM FAWC,
http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/mma-15.09b-1.fc22.noarch.rpm http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/mma-15.09b-1.fc22.src.rpm Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: bvdp on November 27, 2015, 04:33:30 PM Thanks so much!
I was going to add this link to my web page, but since you only have an actual file to dl, it's a bit of a problem. If you had a landing page with a bit of a menu ... then I could just put that up and the user could select the most current. Let me know. Best and thanks for supporting MMA! Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: sciurius on November 27, 2015, 08:21:41 PM Hi Bob,
You can use http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/MMA/ Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: bvdp on November 27, 2015, 09:40:13 PM The download and package pages have been updated! We'll take over the world yet :)
Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: sciurius on November 28, 2015, 06:37:00 PM Nice!
Now, this is a very low-traffic forum, so I do not visit it often. Is there a means to get a signal when a new (devel) version becomes available? Title: Re: Do we need a RPM? Post by: bvdp on November 28, 2015, 07:58:09 PM Not sure. Maybe someone else can chime in here ...
I do have a mailing list (google group) which advises on new releases, but not devel. Personally, I have the kara moon site added to my rss feeds (Inoreader) which lets me know about new posts on the site. But, I don't think it can limit to just one forum? |