packaging January 2010

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Suggested updated Java guidelines
by Alexander Boström 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Hi, I submitted a review for java-gnome and working on that made me think the Java guidelines needs work, so here's a suggested update: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Abo/JavaPackagingDraftUpdate === Changes === Removed some occurances of a Unicode control character that didn't seem to belong there. Fixed formatting of the text under "Jar file naming". Hopefully clarified the text under "Directory structure". Changed some occuranced of "<code>%{_xxx</code>}" into "<code>%{_xxx}</code>". Changed -javadoc Group tag from "Development Documentation" to "Documentation". Mostly rewrote the section on JNI packaging. (See wiki.) Removed this text: The <code>%{_jnidir</code>} rpm macro defines the main JNI jar repository. Like <code>%{_javadir</code>} it is declined in <code>-ext</code> and <code>-x.y.z</code> variants. It follows exactly the same rules as the <code>%{_javadir</code>}-derived tree structure, except that it hosts JAR files that use JNI. <code>%{_jnidir</code>} usually expands into <code>/usr/lib/java</code>. It seems to belong to the "The plan is to eventually..." part, but I don't really understand it. Explain and I'll add something back. :) Partially rewrote the section on prebuilt binaries and the suggested % prep section. (See wiki.) /abo

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Broken URL in section on %global versus %define
by Todd Zullinger 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hi, I was pointing someone at the guidelines on %global versus %define and noticed that the URL to the bugfix description was incorrect. It seems to have picked up a trailing '|' character. (I blame wiki syntax. ;) The correct URL should be: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2010-January/msg00093.html -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I used to think the brain was the most advanced part of the body. Then I realized, look what's telling me that. -- Emo Phillips

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RPM Group vs. Sugar
by Susi Lehtola 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hi, the Sugar activity guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SugarActivityGuidelines#Sample_SPEC instruct using Sugar/Activities as the RPM Group. Is using non-standard RPM groups in Fedora really allowed? The Creating Package HOWTO suggests that it is not, although AFAIK no guideline actually states anything about it. Of course, RPM groups are not very meaningful anymore as comps are used... -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org

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Placement of %doc
by Remi Collet 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi, I'm searching info about %doc placement. Most of %doc files (from source tree) goes under /usr/share/doc/<package_name>-<version> For the pear package, the installer copy doc files to %{pear_docdir} = /usr/share/pear/doc/<extension_name> So two solutions 1/ It's ok to keep this file here and use %doc %{pear_docdir}/foo 2/ It's not ok, we MUST move them to /usr/share/doc ? Actually, most pear package apply 2 I'm asking this because a new package under review apply 1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551724 And an (old) bug is open against php-pear https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468255 But I don't find any usefull information in Guidelines. Regards. P.S. please also note that, because of 2 being applied on most packages, the result of "pear list-files foo" is not correct

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xpaint requires xpaint-devel
by Michael Schwendt 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

xpaint installation requires xpaint-devel and emacs http://bugzilla.redhat.com/542967 May I get assistance here, please?

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Usage of /var/db
by Christian Krause 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hello, During a review the following question came up: Would it be OK if a package creates /var/db/<pkgname> for various kind of reasons (in this case a daemon would serve audio files the user puts there)? In Fedora only the nscd uses this directory: /var/db/Makefile /var/db/nscd/* The FHS doesn't contain any specific guidelines about the usage of /var/db/ and a quick web search revealed that on a couple of systems some daemons use /var/db like this /var/db/mysql /var/db/openldap etc. 1. Would it be acceptable in Fedora as well that a package creates /var/db/<pkgname> ? 2. Would it make sense in this specific case, where a streaming server would serve the audio files from this directory (per default)? Personally I think that a collection of audio files should not be considered a database and so it shouldn't be there. Since usually the user has his audio collection in his home directory, I would just configure the daemon that way, that the user has to specifically configure the directory where the files reside the server should stream... Thanks & Best regards, Christian

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Writeup of approved packaging guidelines
by Susi Lehtola 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, is there anything I can do to help the writeup of "my" guidelines for 5 months? For instance, new MPI packages are turning up with the packagers being blissfully unaware that policies exist for these sort of things. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org

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Item for FPC consideration - changelogs
by Jon Stanley 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

I consider this to be common sense, but it's not in the guidelines right now - that changelog entries are immutable. To that end, I have a really simple draft up here for revision of the guidelines to explicitly state that. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jstanley/Changelog_Draft

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Packaging Gnac (An audio converter for GNOME)
by Taylon 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hello guys, I'm packaging Gnac, it's my first package and I have the following doubt: Gnac is an audio converter, it can convert a lot of audio files and some of these types aren't directly supported by Fedora. On the .desktop file, it register some of these non supported types. Michael Schwendt (he did the package review), find better if an application didn't register for MIME types it doesn't support, but some other applications like audio players does that. What I should to do in this case? The bugzilla link is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555018 Blog - http://www.focolive.org

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Short intro
by Maxim Burgerhout 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

Hi, My name is Maxim Burgerhout and I'd like to start contributing to Fedora development by maintaining a couple of packages. I work as a sysadmin / Linux consultant for my daytime job. Over the last couple of years, I have mainly worked with Red Hat boxes. During several training sessions I had at Red Hat over the past few years, I learned to create RPM's (amongst other things, of course) and I maintain a good number of them for internal use. Those are admittedly not build by the Fedora Guidelines, but I did my best to follow them correctly. I have created a couple of review requests already (linked below). I have packaged a couple of programs to get Yubikey support into Fedora. Yubikeys are fairly low-tech hardware tokens that generate one-time passwords. There's a couple of programs in Fedora to deal with them already: pam_yubico and ykclient. I have packaged a library and a client tool to customize the AES key in the device. As I am (or hope to be) a new packager, I will need sponsorship. I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about myself or the packages if this is required. I apologize if it is not customary to send introductions to these lists. My two review requests are at: 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557776 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557794 Kind regards, Maxim Burgerhout maxim(a)wzzrd.com ---------------- GPG Fingerprint EB11 5E56 E648 9D99 E8EF 05FB C513 6FD4 1302 B48A

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