packaging April 2010

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Arch-specific Requires
by Braden McDaniel 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

I brought up the issue of arch-specific Requires some months ago in response to problems I experienced with xulrunner. This issue has reared its head again with gvfs on F13: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573183 I've put up this draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ArchSpecificRequires Comments welcome. -- Braden McDaniel <braden(a)endoframe.com>

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error running fedora-packager-setup
by Léon Keijser 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi, After reinstalling F12 (fresh install, no upgrade) i tried to run 'fedora-packager-setup' and got this error: $ fedora-packager-setup Setting up Fedora packager environment Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fedora-packager-setup", line 140, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/fedora-packager-setup", line 114, in main if certificate_expired(): NameError: global name 'certificate_expired' is not defined I'm not sure why it's throwing this error. Léon

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Update for the GCJ section of Java Guidelines
by Aleksandar Kurtakov 07 May '10

07 May '10

GCJ AOT bits are mandatory parts of any Java packages according to current guidelines. There are at least 2 reasons to not require them: 1. GCJ has stagnated at Java 1.5 level and gcj bits require having GCJ installed even in cases when the package requires Java >= 1.6. Resulting in an installed but unusable for the given package JVM 2. GCJ AOT bits makes every package an arch specific one (when they are noarch in general)- resulting in slower package build, slower install/uninstall, bigger packages and etc. There are other benefits like - much more readable RPM spec files, using less resources on Fedora infrastructure. But the main benefit is for the users - we do not have to force them to install something they will never use. E.g installing eclipse-jdt drags gcj in but upstream is not supporting it and there is even a warning added to indicate that you're running gcj and it may not work as expected but gcj is still installed because of eclipse dependencies that have the gcj bits. This mail is by no means saying that there is no value in gcj. But gcj has a different usecases and shouldn't be thrown at every user. GCJGuidelines should be changed in such a way that they should indicate that you may add GCJ AOT bits to your package but this should not result in mandatory installation of GCJ (e.g. by making the gcj aot bits a separate subpackage auto-generated like the debug packages, but this is up to the people interested in gcj to solve). We simply don't have to force users to install a non-default and less feature full JVM in order to use our packages with another JVM. Regards, Alexander Kurtakov

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Close a review when no response from submitter.
by Caius Chance 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi, Could I close a package review with FE-DEADREVIEW when no response heard from submitter for long? And if so, how long from the last ping? Rgds, kaio. -- Caius 'kaio' Chance / かいお [Email/Gtalk] Caius.Chance(a)gmail.com | [IRC] kaio at chat.freenode.net [Twitter] K410 | [Blog] blog.kaio.net | [Fedora] fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:kaio

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[fedora-packaging] somebody who was sponsor , would u please help to review my package?
by Devil Wang 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

*HI all,* * * *I have handle a package in Bugzilla as followed.* * Bug 580830 * *https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580830* *Would some sponsor help to review my package.* * * *I have modified for times , and i think , it might be in the proper status. * * * *Your help will be appreciated.* -- Thanks & Regards Linux Developer : Devil Wang

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What is "definitive" Fedora Java packaging guide
by Edmon Begoli 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Could you please point me to "definitive" guide for creating Java RPMs. I saw guides on using JPackage and some pretty good guides by individuals outside of Fedora project, but I would like to follow what is considered an official Fedora java packaging guide or at least what is endorsed by this group. Thank you in advance, Edmon

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Failed Dependencies while installing
by MGandra＠diskeeper.com 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hi I have installed the complete SDK on the machine and trying to install our product which uses the libraries. When I install our product rpm it says error: Failed dependencies: libvixAllProducts.so is needed If I use -nodeps and install it will install and runs correctly. What should I do to make sure that I don't get this error? Madhukar

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user input while installing an RPM
by MGandra＠diskeeper.com 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hi I have an RPM package which will install and I need to get the Username and Password for root user and write it to a config file. I can have another script file through which I can get user input and install RPM and then write to the config file, but I want to get user input and install rpm from one file. I need one file that I can distribute it and does above things. How to do that? Madhukar

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Volonteering to own orphaned Java packages JLex and JDom
by Edmon Begoli 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Hi, Packages JLex and JDom have been recently orphaned and I am volunteering to be a new owner of these. I am a new as a packager, so I would need to be approved and sponsored as a packager and to be a new owner of these for Fedora 14+. I am already Fedora contributor, and I am member of other projects and CVS groups, but I do not have CVS packaging privileges yet. I am experienced software developer with 14 years in Java and 15 years on RedHat Linux. I am a member of the research staff at Oak Ridge National Lab (http://computing.ornl.gov) and PhD student in Computer Science at UTK (http://utk.edu) My FAS account is: ebegoli I have account on fedorapeople and my keys are up to date. Please approve me, if that is appropriate, as the new owner of JLex and JDom packages. Thank you, Edmon

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How much time wait to finish a review?
by Taylon 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello guys, I did a review request[1] for my first package some time ago, Michael Schwendt started the review (thanks Michael), but he didn't finish that. This package is under review for over two months, I would like to package others softwares, but while my first package isn't revised I cannot do this. It's normal? How much time until the package be revised? I really should wait this revision to package another software? 1 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555018 -- Blog - http://www.focolivre.org

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