Re: Building installers based on ploneout

Am Montag, den 07.05.2007, 21:02 -0300 schrieb Sidnei da Silva:
> For the next installer cycle, I would like to start building the
> installers based on ploneout. What does that mean?
> 
> - Fetching all the products and dependencies
> - Adding OS-specific utilities
> - Packaging up the final directory as a installer
> 
> What is your opinion on this? Does it sound like its doable? I believe
> most people are building based on the Plone tarball except me? There
> is a problem with building based on the Plone tarball which is we
> cannot build installers until the tarball is ready, and if the tarball
> is broken we need to wait for another tarball.

Well i do not have very much to do with installers anymore so please
don't take my opinion too serious. But imho it is a good idea to package
all the source files as tarball and build all installers from that one
source package. This makes sure that either all installers are based on
the correct source or none. Building from repository means to not know
it for sure if you have the correct version. 

So in my experience it is best to build a source tarball (once) and
generate a checksum. Then build all the installers based on this tarball
and include the checksum inside the installer.

> 
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