9:49 p.m.
A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be
packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be
smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into
baobab
gnome-font-viewer
gnome-dictionary
gnome-search-tool
gnome-system-log
gnome-screenshot
gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
gcr
seahorse has shed its pgp key sharing component as a standalone
seahorse-sharing module and its nautilus extension as seahorse-nautilus
I'm hoping to find some people who are willing to take on these small
modules - I'll happily do package reviews.
Matthias
4:07 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be
packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be
smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into
baobab
gnome-font-viewer
gnome-dictionary
gnome-search-tool
gnome-system-log
gnome-screenshot
gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
gcr
seahorse has shed its pgp key sharing component as a standalone
seahorse-sharing module and its nautilus extension as seahorse-nautilus
I'm hoping to find some people who are willing to take on these small
modules - I'll happily do package reviews.
Matthias
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I'll take baobab and gnome-screenshot.
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4:34 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be
packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be
smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into
baobab
gnome-font-viewer
gnome-dictionary
gnome-search-tool
gnome-system-log
gnome-screenshot
gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
gcr
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
5:30 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, drago01 <drago01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Matthias Clasen
<mclasen(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be
> packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be
> smaller and more straightforward to package:
>
> gnome-utils has exploded into
> baobab
> gnome-font-viewer
> gnome-dictionary
> gnome-search-tool
> gnome-system-log
> gnome-screenshot
> gnome-dictionary
>
> gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
> gcr
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
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I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
sure the upgrade case will work.
btw, there was a separated package for baobab in the past, what's the
protocol for reviving such package?
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9:31 a.m.
Elad (elad(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> > gnome-utils has exploded into
> > baobab
> > gnome-font-viewer
> > gnome-dictionary
> > gnome-search-tool
> > gnome-system-log
> > gnome-screenshot
> > gnome-dictionary
> >
> > gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
> > gcr
>
> Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
> One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
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I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of
gnome-utils.
Bill
1:34 p.m.
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 10:31 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >
> > Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
> > One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
> I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make
gnome-utils remain
> as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
> sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of
gnome-utils.
Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ?
I seem to recall instances in the past where we've kept an empty
meta-package around for a release just to get upgrades right.
2:55 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Elad (elad(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> > > gnome-utils has exploded into
> > > baobab
> > > gnome-font-viewer
> > > gnome-dictionary
> > > gnome-search-tool
> > > gnome-system-log
> > > gnome-screenshot
> > > gnome-dictionary
> > >
> > > gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is
> > > gcr
> >
> > Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
> > One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
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> > desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
> >
>
> I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
> as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
> sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of
gnome-utils.
Wouldn't yum just pick a semi random one ? (shortest name or whatever
it uses to decide here)
3:04 p.m.
Matthias Clasen (mclasen(a)redhat.com) said:
> > > Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for
upgrades?
> > > One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
> > I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
> > as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
> > sure the upgrade case will work.
>
> In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of
> gnome-utils.
Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ?
It should - if multiple packages obsolete something, you get all of them.
Bill
5:48 p.m.
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 16:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthias Clasen (mclasen(a)redhat.com) said:
> > > > Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades?
> > > > One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
>
> > > I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain
> > > as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make
> > > sure the upgrade case will work.
> >
> > In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of
> > gnome-utils.
>
> Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ?
It should - if multiple packages obsolete something, you get all of them.
I can mostly confirm this is definitely the case and working in F16:
it's the mechanism we use to get *both* grub-efi *and* grub2 installed
on an F15->F16 upgrade, to replace grub. Both those packages obsolete
grub, and we've tested that this causes both anaconda and yum to install
both of those packages when doing the upgrade.
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9:21 p.m.
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 22:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I'm hoping to find some people who are willing to take on these
small
modules - I'll happily do package reviews.
I've made a start by packaging
gcr https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753016
gnome-dictionary https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752993
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