packaging January 2013

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Get paid to package! (Etherpad Lite)
by Rich Jones 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hey all! I didn't post this bounty, but it came across our system and it seems like you guys might be able to earn a quick bit of money on this one: http://gun.io/contracts/16/rpm-based-install-for-etherpad-lite-on-rhel-128 Any takers? -- Rich Jones Director, Gun.io

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Eclipse PTP build/packaging issue
by Orion Poplawski 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

I'm currently the packager for eclipse-ptp. It has a feature that allows for remote development. Some aspects of this (of which I don't quite understand all of it) require shipping a bundle of eclipse platform jars and stuff over to the remote system to run there. The way this is built currently is the build downloads the prebuilt eclipse code for various platforms to build into the bundle (since the remote system might be anything). Obviously this doesn't fly with Fedora. I starting looking at perhaps grabbing the built code we already have, but two issues: - I never quite got this working - It would only have support for the particular platform that the rpm was built on. For now I've disabled this feature (and it has been disabled for the life of the package in Fedora). But I'm wondering if there is any possibility of getting this to work somehow in Fedora. Thoughts? I've posted to both the packaging list and the java list in the hopes of getting the different perspectives. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com

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Scratch building against a package in testing
by Darryl L. Pierce 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Is it possible to do a scratch build against a package that's only available in the testing repo? I just pushed a new package (qpid-proton) and it's not yet hit the updates repo. I have a second package which will depend on it that I'd like to start working on and testing. But when I tried to do a scratch build it failed insce qpid-proton is not in updates yet. Is this possible or do I have to wait for my package to get into updates? -- Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce(a)gmail.com> http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"

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fedora-foo.desktop vendor prefix breakage
by Michael Schwendt 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hello everyone! Here's real-world breakage due to the old vendor prefix in .desktop file names. $ rpmls empathy|grep desktop$ -rw-r--r-- /usr/share/applications/fedora-empathy.desktop GNOME Shell wants "empathy.desktop" instead for its default Dash favourites: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=287759&goto=newpost [...] I've not opened a bugzilla report about this, because there are over 200 open tickets for empathy, and I can't tell whether the empathy packagers would like the suggestion to rename the .desktop file instead of gnome-shell having to be patched. [...] It's time to get rid of the old vendor prefix, even if that causes minor breakage for app links on desktops. -- Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) - Linux 3.7.2-204.fc18.x86_64 loadavg: 0.46 0.24 0.17

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[Fwd: how reload udev rules and systemd on F18]
by Sérgio Basto 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hi, -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> Reply-to: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: how reload udev rules and systemd on F18 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:14:31 +0000 Hi, how I should do the old command udevadm: control --reload-rules ? is correct : systemctl restart udev.service ? I don't find any in documentation that guarantee this . BTW in F18: udev.service change the name to systemd-udevd.service. So put in package spec, is this correct way ? %if 0%{?fedora} < 18 systemctl restart udev.service systemctl restart udev-trigger.service systemctl restart udev-settle.service %else systemctl restart systemd-udevd.service systemctl restart systemd-udev-trigger.service systemctl restart systemd-udev-settle.service %endif Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Sérgio M. B.

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packaging in a nutshell
by Rudra Banerjee 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Dear friends, I am new to this mailing list and trying to be included in the packagers group. I have read the (vast) documentation and not sure, if I have read it to complete understanding. So, to do a package review, what should I need to do? 1) check if this matches Fedora Guide for naming the package. 2) whether it includes "good" certificates 3) run rpmlint 4) run mock (or instead of 3 & 4, run fedora-review) Is this the basic steps or I am still missing something very important?

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Orphaning my packages
by Mario Blättermann 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hi all, due to lack of time I will orphaning all my packages. Most of them I haven't used for a while anyway. Here's a full list: Temperature.app -- Window Maker applet which fetches local temperature information alsamixer-dockapp -- Simple mixer application for ALSA drivers appmenu-qt -- Global application menu to Qt aswvdial -- Dockapp for wvdial compton -- Compositor for X cputnik -- Dockapp which displays CPU and memory usage frogr -- Flickr Remote Organizer for GNOME gtk-solidity-engine -- Solidity Gtk+ theming engine hitori -- Logic puzzle game for GNOME kupfer -- Summon an application or document quickly obapps -- Graphical tool for configuring per-application settings in Openbox pclock -- WindowMaker dockapp which displays an analog clock perl-GStreamer-Interfaces -- Perl interface to the GStreamer Interfaces library plasma-widget-menubar -- Show window menubars pogo -- Probably the simplest and fastest audio player for Linux sudoku-savant -- Solve and generate sudoku puzzles through logical means wmSun -- Rise/Set time of Sun in a dockapp wmbinclock -- Dockapp which shows the actual system time as binary clock wmblob -- Dockapp which shows funny moving `blobs' wmcalc -- Calculator in a WindowMaker dockapp wmcore -- Dockapp that shows the usage of each core in the system wmcube -- Dockapp with a rotating 3d-object and the current CPU load wmdrawer -- Retractable button bar launcher dockapp wmeyes -- Dockapp with moving eyes that follow mouse movement wmnet -- Network monitoring dockapp wmpuzzle -- A 4x4 puzzle on a 64x64 mini window wmsystemtray -- System tray (freedesktop.org systray protocol) as a Window Maker dock app wmtictactoe -- TicTacToe game as a dockapp wmtop -- Mini graphical version of the CPU monitoring utility top wmwave -- Statistics about a current wireless Ethernet connection wmweather -- Applet which shows local weather conditions The following packages don't stay unowned, because I was co-maintainer only: opencsg -- Library for Constructive Solid Geometry using OpenGL openscad -- The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller openscad-MCAD -- OpenSCAD Parametric CAD Library pyproj -- Cython wrapper to provide python interfaces to Proj wiki2beamer -- Converts a simple wiki-like syntax to complex LaTeX beamer code Best Regards, Mario

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How to restart services after upgrade?
by Miroslav Suchý 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

With recent discussion about FedoraUpgrade I would like to question our scriptlets: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Macroized_scriptl… What we basically do right now is in %postun call condrestart if package is upgrading. This actually means that new code is stopping old deamon. While this usually works, I seen some case during my life, where it caused some problems. Isn't more correct solution in %pre section to stop deamon, make note somewhere that daemon was stopped, let rpm upgrade package and in %postun section to start the service if it was stopped in %pre? This is theoretical question right now, because the part "make note somewhere" probably could not be implemented right now. -- Miroslav Suchy Red Hat Systems Management Engineering

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JavaScript
by Vít Ondruch 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi, Since there is already NodeJs in Fedora, shouldn't be the JavaScript exception [1] revisited? There are JavaScript libraries reviews, such as CofeeScript [2], already ongoing. However, there is also it copy of CoffeeScript in rubygem-coffee-script-source. I know I am going to make my life harder, on the other hand, this is just system library and should not be duplicated. Vít [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Duplication_of_system_l… [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732216

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Getting the list of source files from a spec file.‏
by Dany Flores 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Hi to all I new in this list, and I have a question maybe someone can help, I have a spec file, and I need to get the list of all Source Files need it, I can try to parse the spec file but the problem is that sometimes they use variables like version, is possible to get this information? Thanks in advance Dany

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