On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8. There
is
still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get the
maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved.
I'm willing to help out a bit, as I maintain a half-dozen or so
drupal7 packages in Fedora.
Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to
implement some
additional features:
* provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files
* virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will
especially help with the requiring of sub-modules
* virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this
allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any
sub-module(s) that are included
* virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files'
"dependencies[]"
entries) -- this will help simplify spec files
* formalized packaging guidelines
I was thinking about this just yesterday, as it was taking me a while
to track down a bunch of sub-modules and which packages were providing
them. I think virtual provides for sub-modules is something we could
really use -- and the rest would be fantastic, if we can make it work
automagically.
Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will
not be
ready for Fedora for a good while. I am doing all of my work out of GitHub.
If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the links
below:
Specs and issues:
https://github.com/siwinski/drupal8-rpms
Dev repos:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/siwinski/drupal8/
Draft packaging guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siwinski/Draft:Packaging:Drupal8
I added a couple of lines to the packaging guidelines around Drupal
libraries. We may also want to revisit the latest proposed JavaScript
packaging guidelines and make sure that all the new Drupal 8 packages
follow them.
--
Jared Smith