[RPM] for Jokosher 0.11.5 (F15 noarch)

[David Nalley]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2011/9/15 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi there Fedora People!!
>> >
>> > One of my biggest passions in life is audio editing, so when I started
>> > using
>> > Linux I found this friendly (yet powerful) audio editor called
>> > "Jokosher".
>> > When I
>> > installed Fedora 15, I realized that jokosher wasn't added to the F15
>> > repos
>> > and I missed it a lot, so I built an RPM using the lastest source code
>> > the
>> > jokosher developers have on their website:
>> > http://www.jokosher.org/
>> > and now I want to share it with you guys, so if someone wants to
>> > add it to the official repos that might be awesome, the download
>> > links are down here:
>> > RPM -
>> >
>> > http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/xenodecdn/jokosher-0.11.5-0.fc15.noarch.rpm
>> > SRC.RPM -
>> >
>> > http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/xenodecdn/jokosher-0.11.5-0.fc15.src.rpm
>> > it's a "noarch" package so it can be installed in both 32 and 64 bit
>> > systems,
>> > Enjoy!
>>
>> I pulled the SRPM and gave it a look over. Pretty good overall! I'm
>> not sure how much you've packaged before but I couldn't find much
>> wrong with it. Here's what I did find:
>>
>> 1. Why is the license GPLv2+ "with exceptions"?
>> 2. I got rid of %clean and "rm -rf %{buildroot}" in %install. You
>> don't need those anymore.
>> 3. I got rid of a lot of the white space in the description and fixed
>> one spelling error (rpmlint is your friend).
>> 4. %exclude in %files for the Profiling.py file is not the way to go.
>> That works well for excluding files you want in a separate
>> sub-package. In this case because the file (nor the byte-compiled
>> versions) are needed at all, I used "rm -f
>> %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}/Jokosher/Profiler.py*" in %install
>> instead.
>> 5. I changed the release to "1" since it's from the stable source
>> instead of a pre-release checkout.
>> 6. Added "python2-devel" as a build requirement[1].
>>
>> Here's the updated SRPM:
>> http://hobbes1069.fedorapeople.org/jokosher/jokosher-0.11.5-1.fc15.src.rpm
>>
>> So the question remains, instead of seeing if someone else will submit
>> it, why not submit it yourself?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>
>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#BuildRequires
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>
> Hi Richard:
>
> I'm not much of a packager, just learned the basics experimenting
> with Kmess some time ago... What I did was pulling an old RPM from
> F14 with pretty old Source code and then Rebuild a new package with
> the lastest source code, making some very little changes to the spec file.
>
> Humm I might be interested in pulling it into the repos if I knew how
> to do that but I'm not informed about that topic very much, so Don't
> Know how to submit it :S
>


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