[rt-devel] creating tarballs from repository

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>
>> As an aside, slightly on topic, what do you feel about automake build
>> systems?
>
>Automake scares the pants off me. But I'll _look_ at anything that
>someone thinks might help ;)

Ok, I'll give it a go soon.  It's not that scary once you know what it
thinks it's doing :-)

>> Oh, and how do you like your diffs?  Should I just send you a bunch of
>> aedists in order?
>
>As yet, nobody's handed me an aedist. start with one or two for discrete
>features and we'll go from there. send them to rt-3.0-bugs at fsck.com

What I've got now is about 5 cosmetic changes, and the beginnings of a test
suite (about 4 or 5 changes).  The majority of the changes caused by the
testsuite are build system changes, all centred around Makefile.in.  The
tests do the following:
 - check that configure and make install works
 - check that configure and make install works from outside the source tree
 - check that make initialize-database works
 - check that make install works with the FHS layout

They're pretty simple, albeit big tests :-)  I've got some bigger goals with
the test suite in mind, such as automatic schema updates and web ui feature
checks... that's going to require a bit of work though :-)

So I'll send some aedists to the bug address, in groups of related dists,
with some notes about which order they should be applied in.

Most of what I'm doing isn't useful to RT users, just for development,
though, so I'll understand if you find adding big ugly tests for known
working code annoying (though one of my tests found that postgresl ACL bug
that was mentioned on -users recently).

Oh, and once I've got the automatic RPM stuff done I'll send it your way
too.

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