[Bug 549915] New: Review Request: FreeMat - An interpreted, matrix-oriented development environment

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Summary: Review Request: FreeMat - An interpreted, matrix-oriented development environment

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Summary: Review Request: FreeMat - An interpreted,
                    matrix-oriented development environment
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora

Spec URL: http://lonelyspooky.com/uploads/rpm/freemat/4.0-1/freemat.spec
SRPM URL:
http://lonelyspooky.com/uploads/rpm/freemat/4.0-1/FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.src.rpm
Description:
Freemat is an interpreted, matrix-oriented development environment for
engineering and scientific applications, similar to the commercial
package MATLAB. Freemat provides visualization, image manipulation,
and plotting as well as parallel programming.

[lonely@localhost i686]$ rpmlint FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686.rpm
FreeMat-doc-4.0-1.fc12.i686.rpm FreeMat-debuginfo-4.0-1.fc12.i686.rpm 
FreeMat.i686: E: script-without-shebang /usr/bin/blas.ini
FreeMat.i686: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package
/usr/share/FreeMat-4.0/toolbox/test/addArrays.c
FreeMat-doc.i686: W: no-documentation
3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 2 warnings.

I still have some issues to work, but I'm really confused here. This
FreeMat-debuginfo package was automatically generated by rpmbuild, but my
package has some strange requirements that i haven't defined as a "Requires" in
my spec:
[lonely@localhost i686]$ su -c 'rpm -ivh FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686.rpm'
Senha:
erro: Dependências não satisfeitas:
 libCore.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libFN.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libFreeMatlib.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libGraphics.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libMatC.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libMex.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libXP.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libarpack_c.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libblasref.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 libdynblas.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686
 liblapack_c.so é requerido por FreeMat-4.0-1.fc12.i686

What is happening?

[Bug 549915] Review Request: FreeMat - An interpreted, matrix-oriented development environment

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--- Comment #1 from Jussi Lehtola   2009-12-22 18:29:13 EDT ---
Ugh. "blas.ini" in %{_bindir}??

- You're not owning %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/, add
 %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/
to the main %files.

- Are the files in
 %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help
used by the main program? In that case you don't need to make a separate %doc
package. On the other hand if the files are not used by the program itself, use
%{_docdir} instead of %{_datadir}.

- I think you are missing some buildrequires, since judging from the project
homepage FreeMat links against BLAS. Actually, you should link against ATLAS,
which is faster than reference BLAS & LAPACK.

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--- Comment #2 from Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior   2009-12-22 18:49:26 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Ugh. "blas.ini" in %{_bindir}??

Yes... it is in the same place that upstream places it (with this strange 644
permission, already fixed). Is it the wrong place?
> You're not owning %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/, add
>
> %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/
> to the main %files.

Thank you, I'm doing it right now.
> Are the files in
>
> %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help
> used by the main program? In that case you don't need to make a separate %doc
> package. On the other hand if the files are not used by the program itself, use
> %{_docdir} instead of %{_datadir}.

You are right, those help files are more like a collection of manuals and it is
used by the main software. I'll merge it.
> I think you are missing some buildrequires, since judging from the project
>
> homepage FreeMat links against BLAS. Actually, you should link against ATLAS,
> which is faster than reference BLAS & LAPACK.

I've just look at an "how to build in Linux file", but with a little lack of
details. I'm going to do some more reading about linking it in ATLAS.
I'm waiting for some answers from upstream too.

Thank you for your help Jussi.

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--- Comment #3 from Jussi Lehtola   2009-12-23 03:24:02 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Ugh. "blas.ini" in %{_bindir}??
>
> Yes... it is in the same place that upstream places it (with this strange 644
> permission, already fixed). Is it the wrong place?

Absolutely. It should be placed in %{_datadir}/%{name}/. Please ask upstream to
fix this.

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--- Comment #4 from Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior   2009-12-23 06:29:19 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Absolutely. It should be placed in %{_datadir}/%{name}/. Please ask upstream to
> fix this.

Leave it to me.
Can you tell me something about this implicit requirements that my package is
asking for?
By the way, here is a little update in the páckage but I just realized that if
we move %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help to
%{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/help the help section of the software will break.
Is there a more elegant solution to this problem?

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--- Comment #5 from Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior   2009-12-23 06:41:49 EDT ---
ooops! Sorry. Here goes the files.
SPEC: http://lonelyspooky.com/uploads/rpm/freemat/4.0-2/freemat.spec
SRPM:
http://lonelyspooky.com/uploads/rpm/freemat/4.0-2/FreeMat-4.0-2.fc12.src.rpm

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--- Comment #6 from Jussi Lehtola   2009-12-23 07:31:01 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Absolutely. It should be placed in %{_datadir}/%{name}/. Please ask upstream to
> > fix this.
>
> Leave it to me.
> Can you tell me something about this implicit requirements that my package is
> asking for?
> By the way, here is a little update in the páckage but I just realized that if
> we move %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help to
> %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}/help the help section of the software will break.
> Is there a more elegant solution to this problem?

If it breaks, then the files are needed by the main package and thus cannot be
placed in -doc, instead they are placed in the main package.

Now you have
 %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}
 %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/toolbox
 %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help
so change this simply to
 %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}
or
 %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/
both of which are equivalent, but the latter is IMHO clearer to the reader of
the spec file.

It's a bit off that the datadir is versioned. Only a few packages do this. Is
there a configure option or whatnot to change the datadir to
%{_datadir}/%{name} instead of using %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}?

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--- Comment #7 from Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior   2009-12-24 06:48:04 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Now you have
>  %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}
>  %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/toolbox
>  %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help
> so change this simply to
>  %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}
> or
>  %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/
> both of which are equivalent, but the latter is IMHO clearer to the reader of
> the spec file.

Hi, when I tried to use only %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version} (or
%{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}) leaving %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/toolbox
and %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/help undeclared rpmbuild, at the end,
complais about a lot of missing files.
I've tried %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}/* too, but the result is the same.

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--- Comment #8 from Jussi Lehtola   2009-12-24 06:57:38 EDT ---
What exactly did you try? Did you remember to remove the %dir statement, i.e.
use
 %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}
instead of
 %dir %{_datadir}/%{name}-%{version}
as the latter will own only the directory, not its contents?

The config file should not have executable permissions. Remove
 chmod 755 %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/blas.ini
Any rpmlint warnings/errors about nonexecutables in %{_bindir} are caused by
the idiotic placement of config files in bindir.

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--- Comment #9 from Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior  2010-03-29 22:12:37 EDT ---
Hi, sorry for the delay. I was a little busy working on two packages. So, I'll
be doing some refinements on the entire package. By the way, upstrean is a
little unresponsive.

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--- Comment #10 from Ivan Ferrucio Reche da Silva Filgueiras  2010-10-16 13:24:31 EDT ---
I'm also interested in having Freemat in Fedora. It's a great piece of
software.

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--- Comment #11 from Jason Tibbitts  2010-11-16 11:21:19 EST ---
I guess we still haven't see that updated package.

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--- Comment #12 from Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior  2010-11-18 06:21:34 EST ---
Hi, folks, I'm connected again and back to work. Wait for some news soon.

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             Blocks|                            |201449(FE-DEADREVIEW)
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG
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        Last Closed|                            |2010-12-26 15:28:35

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         Depends on|                            |715180(freemat)

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Bug 549915 depends on bug 715180, which changed state.

Bug 715180 Summary: Review Request: FreeMat - A free environment for rapid engineering, scientific prototyping and data processing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715180

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX