Re: Buildbot query

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:
>
> > ... but the following targets aren't:
> > make rpm-package
> > make srpm-package
> > make svr4-package
> > make debian-package
> > (and maybe more)
> >
> > Should they be?
>
> I.e., can, and should, we get into the business of making binary packages for OSes other than Windows and OS X?
>
> I don't know whether an Ubuntu buildbot could make RPMs - and I don't know whether generic RPMs work (as in "an RPM 
> that'll work on any version of any Linux distribution that uses RPMs and that has sufficiently recent versions of the 
> libraries Wireshark uses), so I'm not sure we could build "RPMs" as opposed to "RHEL/Fedora/blah blah RPMs" or "{pick 
> other RPM-using Linux)" RPMs, much less whether we could build an RPM that works on "RHEL XXX and newer/Fedora YYY 
> and newer/..." rather than RPMs for individual versions of RHEL/Fedora/etc..  I also don't know whether we can build 
> x86 and x86-64 binaries on the same machine, or whether we'd need two buildbots.
>
> I don't know what OSes other than Solaris would use SVR4 packages; we could build SPARC packages, but I don't know 
> whether we could build x86 packages without a Solaris x86 buildbot.

Well, that's a bit unfair, isn't it? We neither ask of the Windows / OSX 
buildbots to crossbuild these packages, so why of these? Lets first start with 
their native packages, so we increase our coverage that way.

Thanks,
Jaap
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