packaging September 2012

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15 discussions

version-release for different branches
by "Germán A. Racca" 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hi list, I have the following situation. I have a package whose version-release in f17/16 is 0.1.14-2, but in f18/master branches it is 0.1.14-3 (because of a f18 mass rebuild). Suppose I'm going to update the spec file, so in f18/master branches the new version-release will be 0.1.14-4, and for f17/16 branches if I "git merge master", then the release will jump from 2 to 4. Is this ok? Or should I keep working with different releases for different branches and forget about "git merge master" in lower branches? All the best, Germán. -- Germán A. Racca Fedora Package Maintainer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux

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Should {NEWS, CHANGELOG, README, etc} go into main package or -doc subpackage?
by Vít Ondruch 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hi, Can somebody clarify where should go the files mentioned in $SUBJECT if the package provides a -doc subpackage? It is obvious that the LICENSE file must go into the main package, but what about the others? There are packages, which has the $SUBJECT files in main package, but I think they should go into -doc subpackage. What else wold be the -doc subpackage purpose then? BTW it would be nice if the guidelines could be clarified regarding this issue. Thank you Vit

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php/php53 application packaging
by indent man 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hello, I'm packaging a PHP application under CentOS 5. It depends on some other php libraries, but should work with both php (5.1) and php53. But when I try to install the application RPM, yum mixes both php and php53 libraries. What is the best way to prevent this ? Cheers,

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[Bug 821631] Gnome icon theme not needed in minimal installation
by Caterpillar 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Hi, I have been told to discuss here this bug I reported months ago... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821631 What do you think about? Best regards

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When to use a leading underscore?
by Björn Persson 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

As maintainer of fedora-gnat-project-common I sometimes work on RPM macros for use in Ada packages. Every time I define a new macro I have trouble deciding whether its name should begin with an underscore or not. I know that there is some technical difference but I've never quite understood what practical difference it makes. I've been trying to imitate macros with a similar function, so I defined _GNAT_project_dir with a leading underscore in analogy with _libdir and others. Macros containing command line flags for build tools I've defined without a leading underscore in analogy with optflags, but then there are _smp_mflags and the hardening macros which have the underscore, and __global_cflags and __global_ldflags even have two leading underscores. Could someone explain what difference a leading underscore makes and give some guidance on when I should use it? Is a double leading underscore functionally different from a single one, or is that just some kind of naming convention? Björn Persson

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