Re: Release a .package now

On 5/7/08, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Gabriele Greco <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I want to release a new version of an app (http://etw.sourceforge.net)
> and
> > I'd like to distribute it for a version of autopackage that is
> compatible
> > with Ubuntu 8.04 and doesn't break gnome icon cache like 1.2.4 stable
> > version does,
>
> Do you mean this bug? http://trac.autopackage.org/ticket/31


Well 31, and 39, the correct changeset that fixes it is:

http://trac.autopackage.org/changeset/2411

You could distribute the autopackage.tar.bz2 along with your package.
> AFAIK it's also possible to integrate it into the .package file itself
> (something called sealed package, but i'm not sure).


I'd like to follow the embedded  "autopackage.tar.bz2" route, for sealed
packages documentation I've looked at:

http://www.autopackage.org/docs/devguide/ch02s05.html

I've built a "sealed package" and installed it successfully on a machine
without the runtime installed!


IMHO the best would be to release 1.2.5, as there are many critical
> bugs in 1.2.4 (e.g. env vars with sudo, xauth or the KDE4 bug).


I agree with you!


I used the files from:
http://ftp.sunsite.dk/projects/autopackage/HEAD/

But I suppose the latest fixes are not yet present since the dates of the
files are of late 2007.

-- 
Bye,
Gabry