From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Soo Subject: Re: Packaging FreeCAD Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:33:23 -0800 Message-ID: <8973E603-5C06-4E6E-837E-56C15E7599C0@asu.edu> References: <4071518a081f8bdf5b119dc774d9876ba8d5bd7b.camel@tourbillion-technology.com> <54206293-2C5D-4F2B-B213-888CAA38C93A@asu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guiIm-00026y-SB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:33:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guiIl-0006Fu-Lu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:33:32 -0500 Received: from mail-pg1-x543.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::543]:42513) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guiIl-0006De-4y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:33:31 -0500 Received: by mail-pg1-x543.google.com with SMTP id d72so5174575pga.9 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:33:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Paul Garlick Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Thanks so much Paul! This is really helpful! > On Feb 15, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Paul Garlick wrote: >=20 > Hi John, >=20 >> I have been getting a little stuck building the pyside2 dependencies >=20 > There has been an effort to package pyside2 for Debian. This has been > completed in the last six months.=20 >=20 > A good place to look for information is=20 > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyside2 >=20 > You can browse the source code and follow the links to the 'debian' > directory, which contains the files that govern the packaging process.=20 > In general for Debian packages, the 'rules' file is worth reading and > the 'patches' directory has the changes to the upstream code. =20 >=20 > One element that could be important in Guix is an update of patchelf to > a recent commit (see 'update-patchelf.patch' in the patches directory). >=20 > Best regards, >=20 > Paul. >=20