Biting the bullet?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:19:39PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > I am sorry I do not quite understand. I presume that you mean that one should rename stapler (my packaged version) to something else. I tried doing this in the spec file. But it never worked because the spec file looks for that something else then. I could not figure out how to fix this so just created the file for my personal use.
> > If you or someone else would like to take a look, here it is:
> > fpaste pdf-stapler.spec 
> > Uploading (2.4KiB)...
> > http://ur1.ca/kckv7 -> http://paste.fedoraproject.org/221087/14400891
> Just rename the tarball to the new name and you are good.  The %{name}
> macro takes the value from the Name: field in the spec file.

Actually, please keep the upstream tarball name; renaming it shouldn't
be necessary. Also, the guidelines contain a recipe for source from
github: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Github


What you'll need is to provide the _original_ name to the %setup
macro. In this case, that'd be '%setup -q -n stapler'.


> If I recall correctly, Fedora packaging guidelines says the package name
> should be something like python-stapler.

It kind of depends. That is the case for python _modules_ — packages
intended to be used by other python programs. However, this is a
utility which happens to be written in Python — it doesn't need that
prefix (but you _could_ do that).


There a number of other issues in the spec file currently — I'll
address them separately.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader