A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into baobab gnome-font-viewer gnome-dictionary gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-screenshot gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is gcr
seahorse has shed its pgp key sharing component as a standalone seahorse-sharing module and its nautilus extension as seahorse-nautilus
I'm hoping to find some people who are willing to take on these small modules - I'll happily do package reviews.
Matthias
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into baobab gnome-font-viewer gnome-dictionary gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-screenshot gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is gcr
seahorse has shed its pgp key sharing component as a standalone seahorse-sharing module and its nautilus extension as seahorse-nautilus
I'm hoping to find some people who are willing to take on these small modules - I'll happily do package reviews.
Matthias
-- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
I'll take baobab and gnome-screenshot.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into baobab gnome-font-viewer gnome-dictionary gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-screenshot gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is gcr
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM, drago01 drago01@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
A number of GNOME modules have been split upstream, and need to be packaged for Fedora 17. Thankfully, the results of the splits should be smaller and more straightforward to package:
gnome-utils has exploded into baobab gnome-font-viewer gnome-dictionary gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-screenshot gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is gcr
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools? -- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make sure the upgrade case will work.
btw, there was a separated package for baobab in the past, what's the protocol for reviving such package?
Elad (elad@fedoraproject.org) said:
gnome-utils has exploded into baobab gnome-font-viewer gnome-dictionary gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-screenshot gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is gcr
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools? -- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of gnome-utils.
Bill
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 10:31 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of gnome-utils.
Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ? I seem to recall instances in the past where we've kept an empty meta-package around for a release just to get upgrades right.
Matthias Clasen (mclasen@redhat.com) said:
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of gnome-utils.
Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ?
It should - if multiple packages obsolete something, you get all of them.
Bill
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 16:04 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthias Clasen (mclasen@redhat.com) said:
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools?
I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of gnome-utils.
Will that ensure that they all get installed on upgrade ?
It should - if multiple packages obsolete something, you get all of them.
I can mostly confirm this is definitely the case and working in F16: it's the mechanism we use to get *both* grub-efi *and* grub2 installed on an F15->F16 upgrade, to replace grub. Both those packages obsolete grub, and we've tested that this causes both anaconda and yum to install both of those packages when doing the upgrade.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Elad (elad@fedoraproject.org) said:
gnome-utils has exploded into baobab gnome-font-viewer gnome-dictionary gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-screenshot gnome-dictionary
gnome-keyring keeps spawning new libraries, the latest one is gcr
Kinda unrelated but how do we handle this for upgrades? One does upgrade from F16 to F17 and loose the tools? -- desktop mailing list desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
I guess we will need to add an Obsolete, or maybe make gnome-utils remain as a metapackage that will require all those new packages, just to make sure the upgrade case will work.
In the general case, we just have all of them obsolete the last version of gnome-utils.
Wouldn't yum just pick a semi random one ? (shortest name or whatever it uses to decide here)
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 22:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I'm hoping to find some people who are willing to take on these small modules - I'll happily do package reviews.
I've made a start by packaging
gcr https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753016 gnome-dictionary https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752993
desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org
-
Adam Williamson -
Bill Nottingham -
drago01 -
Elad Alfassa -
Matthias Clasen