Impasse on packaging JOGL and Gluegen

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Mar 1 14:36:27 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 15:49 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 02/28/2010 03:39 PM, Henrique Junior wrote:
> > As Chen Lei said, the fact that JOGL needs this code may mean that it
> > will be blocked forever for packaging, but I do not particularly see a
> > big problem.
> > For more details, please, read the log in bugzilla and give your ideas
> > regarding this question.
> 
> AFAIK we have had problems like this before with various bits of Xorg
> (iirc) needing the sources of other bits to build.
> 
> The "usual" solution for this, is to give a package a -source subpackage,
> which contains the extracted sources (and installs them under
> /usr/src
> 
> So I think the best way to handle this is to package gluegen, and include
> gluegen's sources as a gluegen-source subpackage, and then make jogl
> BuildRequire gluegen-source.

Yeah, we did this for Mesa from FC5 through F9.  Certainly not ideal,
but such is life.

I wouldn't consider this a blocker for packaging, though I'd like to see
it fixed eventually.  Usually when this kind of source build dependency
exists it's not a trivial thing to fix.

- ajax
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