packaging January 2011

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heimdal packaging
by Orion Poplawski 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

I'm starting to take a look at the heimdal package review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613001 heimdal is an alternative kerberos implementation to MIT-Kerberos. I'm assuming we will want to explore the use of alternative to allow coexistence. One trick part it for EL6 support. I'm assuming that there really is no way we'll get alternatives support into the RHEL6 krb5 package. In that case is it acceptable to fall back to the /usr/heimdal/ prefix for the package? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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ExclusiveArch and dependencies
by Björn Persson 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

I have a question regarding the use of ExclusiveArch. At https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures#ExcludeArch_.26_ExclusiveArch it says that only packages which are exclusively architecture-specific should use ExclusiveArch. Is it appropriate to extend this to packages which aren't architecture-specific themselves, but which depend on a package that is available only on some architectures? The reason why I'm asking is that some packages with Ada code which I maintain can't be built on architectures where Gnat, the Ada compiler, is unavailable, and apparently this annoys the people who work on secondary architectures. The proposed workaround is to add ExclusiveArch entries to the Ada packages, listing the architectures where the gcc-gnat package is available, and then update those entries when someone manages to bootstrap Gnat on a new architecture. I'd like to know if this use of ExclusiveArch is acceptable, or if I'll run the risk of being told that it's against the rules and must be removed. Björn Persson

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installing an icon to the desktop?
by Erik Blankinship 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Using a .desktop file in my rpm, I have successfully put my gui software into the gnome application menu. I am wondering if there is a way to also put the icon onto the gnome desktop when installing the rpm?

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Issues with Fortran modules
by Orion Poplawski 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660035 for the spark for this. Apparently there is a "GFORTRAN module version" number assigned to Fortran modules created by gfortran: ==> /usr/lib/gfortran/modules/hdf5.mod <== GFORTRAN module version '4' created from ../../../fortran/src/HDF5.f90 on Thu Oct 28 14:43:23 2010 ==> /usr/lib/gfortran/modules/netcdf.mod <== GFORTRAN module version '0' created from netcdf4.f90 on Mon Apr 19 20:30:19 2010 Now, apparently from gcc 4.4.3 -> 4.5.1 this changed from 0 to 4, and apparently there is no backwards compatibility: Fatal Error: Wrong module version '0' (expected '4') for file 'netcdf.mod' opened at (1) So, it makes sense to me to encode this into the rpm dependencies somehow. Perhaps gcc-gfortran can provides a gfortran-abi(VERSION) and the gfortran module packages can require it. rpm would need to automatically generate the requires though. Thoughts? Suggestions? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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how to handle a common (base) package
by Orcan Ogetbil 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hello all, During the review [1] of the redland-bindings package , I came across a situation where there are common %doc files that need to be shared across different bindings. These are: %doc AUTHORS COPYING COPYING.LIB ChangeLog %doc LICENSE.txt NEWS README TODO %doc LICENSE.html NEWS.html README.html TODO.html %doc LICENSE-2.0.txt NOTICE %doc RELEASE.html The package has perl, php, python and ruby bindings, each of which has its own subpackage, i.e. perl-redland php-redland python-redland ruby-redland and the above are the only common files across. The question is, where do these files go? Shall we make a common package and make all the binding subpackages depend on it? If so, what shall be the name of the common package? I need to add that some of the bindings have different licenses, so some of the above license files may be irrelevant for some of the bindings. Thanks, Orcan [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659082

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Packaging of .po files for Drupal
by Volker Fröhlich 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Dear list readers, the PHP CMS Drupal can be extended with modules. These modules usually ship with .po files. These files are the original source of translation, when the module is activated. There are no .mo files. Drupal parses the .po files and eventually puts the results into its database. The .po files go to %{_datadir}/drupal6/modules/name_of_the_module/translations. Usually the .po files are called de.po, ja.po and so forth. In other cases, there are also prefixes, such as includes.*.po, includes-views.*.po. I suppose, these files should be labeled %lang, but %find_lang doesn't seem to work. How should we treat that case? Volker Fröhlich

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"No translations found" error in rpmbuild
by Erik Blankinship 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

In the %install of my spec file I do this: Name: sunny ... rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %{__python} setup.py install -01 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %find_lang %{name} unfortunately, my rpmbuild dies with this error: "No translations found for sunny in /home/erikb/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/sunny-1.0-1.i386" Peeking into the BUILDROOT, I find I have these valid .mo and .po files with my translations in my buildroot (all copied over by my setup.py): BUILDROOT/sunny-1.0-1.i386/usr/share/sunny/locale/da/sunny.mo BUILDROOT/sunny-1.0-1.i386/usr/share/sunny/locale/de/sunny.mo BUILDROOT/sunny-1.0-1.i386/usr/share/sunny/po/da.po BUILDROOT/sunny-1.0-1.i386/usr/share/sunny/po/de.po Any suggestions how to get the translations into my application? I am not sure why rpmbuild is not finding the files it needs. Thank you! (Note: if I remove %find_lang, my rpm builds successfully)

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double click to install in f11
by Erik Blankinship 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

I am trying to make it easy for gnome software to be installed by novices using OLPC F11 installations ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3 ) In olpc F11 , double clicking in gnome to install an rpm is not working for me. Is there any way to go enable this double-click-to-install functionality in F11? Or to make my rpm delivered via usb stick easy to install without terminal and rpm -i myCoolApp.rpm ? Thanks!

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/etc/mtab is listed in setup and util-linux
by Richard W.M. Jones 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

[Reposted from devel, this is a more appropriate list] febootstrap doesn't like: febootstrap: error: /etc/mtab is a config file which is listed in two packages (setup-2.8.30-1.fc15.noarch.rpm, util-linux-2.19-0.2.fc15.x86_64.rpm) Is it OK for a %config file to exist in two RPMs? Wouldn't RPM always create an .rpmsave or .rpmnew file in these circumstances? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

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About -finline-functions
by Sergio Belkin 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Hi, I've read that "-O3" is not so good, what about -finline-functions for g++. Is that flag allowed? Thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com LPIC-2 Certified

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