[Neurodebian-devel] packages for iqr

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> For once they lack proper metadata and moreover since cpack doesn't have
> anything among the lines of the shlib helper, the packages don't have
> proper depends, which defeats the biggest point of having a package in
> the first place, instead of just a binary tarball (the package is not
> going to pull its dependencies in upon installation) ...

ah -- I didn't realize that it even lacks Depends -- I thought it would
be smarter since all the utility to harvest information for Depends in
available.

> > But even if they are usable, it would boil down to keeping a building
> > farm with necessary tools to build such custom (distinctly versioned so
> > there is no confusion) packages per each release/architecture/...  

> Exactly, this is what I meant by unportable.

> It doesn't solve the problem, it only makes it even worse: instead of
> writing one source package and semi-automatically backporting it, you
> have to cpack in every single chroot and take care of marking the
> packages accordingly... 

yeap -- and that is what I meant ;)


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