[Bug 211319] Review Request: andutteye-client - Andutteye Software Suite Monitoring agent

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Summary: Review Request: andutteye-client - Andutteye Software Suite Monitoring agent

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211319

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-11-15 10:51 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanx for all input! Hopefully it will go smoother on future packets when i have
> learned the Fedora standard correctly :-).

We all learn this way... :-) You'll find that Fedora's package guidelines will
assist you greatly in making quality packages for other distributions also,
should the need ever arise.
> Is this the right way to go if one
> wants to change locations on the software when the packed software in the Source
> tarbundle? have different locations defined?
>
> <snip>
> %install
> mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{andutteye_bin_dir}
> install -m 0755 opt/andutteye/backbone/andutteye-api-linux.pl  
> %{buildroot}%{andutteye_bin_dir}
> install -m 0755 opt/andutteye/bin/andutteyed                            
> %{buildroot}%{andutteye_bin_dir}
> install -m 0755 opt/andutteye/utils/*                          
> %{buildroot}%{andutteye_bin_dir}
> install -m 0644 opt/andutteye/LICENSE                           
> rm -rf %{buildroot}/opt/andutteye
> </snip>

You can do it this way, but *if* your source tarball has a makefile, try to
rather create an "install target" patch for it; its cleaner, and allows you to
add (submit) it to the upstream source. In your case, this is fine (since the
upstream source does not have any such makefile).

A few comments:
* don't use %{andutteye_*_dir}; use one of the standard macros, like %{_bindir};
you can find documentation on these macros in /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.4.2; they are
 defined in code in /usr/lib/rpm/macros. In short:
    %_prefix            /usr
    %_exec_prefix       %{_prefix}
    %_bindir            %{_exec_prefix}/bin
    %_sbindir           %{_exec_prefix}/sbin
    %_libexecdir        %{_exec_prefix}/libexec
    %_datadir           %{_prefix}/share
    %_sysconfdir        %{_prefix}/etc
    %_sharedstatedir    %{_prefix}/com
    %_localstatedir     %{_prefix}/var
    %_libdir            %{_exec_prefix}/lib
    %_includedir        %{_prefix}/include
    %_oldincludedir     /usr/include
    %_infodir           %{_prefix}/info
    %_mandir            %{_prefix}/man

* Use -p for "install" and "cp" commands, to preserve timestamps. See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-0239576e441f9ef53d17...

* Insert a "rm -rf %{buildroot}" command as the first line of %install

* The final line in %install, "rm -rf %{buildroot}/opt/andutteye", should not be
necessary, since the directory isn't created

* In your %files section: %doc %{andutteye_doc_dir}/LICENSE, etc - the
%{andutteye_doc_dir} is not necessary, as %doc automatically places these files
in the correct dir (/usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}-${release})

* Also in %files, rather use the standard dir macros

This is looking much better! :-) From now on, please increment the release tag
for each subsequent spec publishing (and check that the changelog
version-release info matches that of the spec ;-) )
Also, for other people to participate in the review, it will be necessary to
build SRPMs for each release as well, so everything can be tested.
Good luck!