GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 612526
make it easy to do gnome development
Last modified: 2014-08-03 19:06:54 UTC
People should be able to apply patches and build gnome apps from source (either plainly or cvc cook). But we recently removed all :devel troves, and as a result made the user unable to compile anything. Thing is, there is no easy way to restore all the devel troves. Re-work the groups. Perhaps create a parent-group of group-gnome-dist, which will create complete packages. So users can simply sync to this parent group, and become able to compile things. Compiling should be easy for at least gnome modules. Since we still want the image small, group-gnome-dist can't be enlarged.
>> Since we still want the image small, group-gnome-dist can't be enlarged. Agreed. This should be a separate group that developers can then install manually after the fact.
devel troves (:devel, :devellib, build-tree) have been moved to group-gnome-devel. And doc troves (:doc, :supdoc) to group-gnome-docs. Ideally users should be able to install them with one command, e.g. to get all devel troves: sudo conary update group-gnome-devel However, this is still some problem, so it's still under work.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeDeveloperKit/FAQ#How_to_be_able_to_compile_gnome_apps sudo conary sync group-gnome-devel should get you all the devel libraries.
The last gnome-live / Gnome developer kit code changes took place in August 2009: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/gnome-live/log/ This project already got archived in GNOME Git. This project is not under active development anymore. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.