Octave package standard
by Orion Poplawski
I'm currently working with octave upstream to get their new package
management system in line with Fedora so that we can easily build RPMs
with it. I'd like to get a Fedora package standard configured and
approved at the same time. I've put a draft on the wiki at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Octave
Some further information:
- Currently octave uses the /usr/libexec tree to install the .oct files.
These are really shared libraries. It does use an arch/api versioned
directory, e.g.:
/usr/libexec/octave/packages/java-1.2.1/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v26/
Some other package files (PKG_ADD/PKG_DEL) get added there too.
- Currently the entire octave forge collection is part of the
octave-forge package. I will releasing this for F8, with the
understanding that this will be replaced by individual packages later.
The octave forge package will have provides like:
Provides: octave-gsl = 1.0.1
to try to provide a better upgrade path. We may want to keep the
octave-forge as a meta package that pulls in the others. Let me know if
this doesn't seem correct.
- DISTPKG (%{octave_distpkg}) is a flag that this is being built by a
package manager. The contents get inserted into an informational
message, but otherwise does not mean much.
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16 years, 6 months
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packaging of Atari emulators
by Dan Horák
Hello,
I have prepared packages for atari800 (emulator of 8-bit Atari machines)
and ARAnyM (emulator of m68k based Ataris). As there doesn't exist any
free OS ROM for atari800, it is clear "no go" into Fedora. I will try to
submit it into Rpmfusion. But another situation exists for ARAnyM. There
is a package called AFROS, which contains a fully running ROM image and
OS distribution all based on GPLed software packages. So I think it is
possible to include both ARAnyM and AFROS (in binary directly usable
form) in Fedora. I would compare AFROS with a free data files for games.
What are your opinions?
Thanks
Dan
16 years, 6 months
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missing today's meeting
by Ralf Corsepius
Hi,
today's meeting collides with other personal obligations, which will
cause me not to be able to attend today's FPC meeting.
Ralf
16 years, 6 months
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