Hi,
I'm interested in getting Plug http://piorekf.org/plug/download/ included in Fedora, this is a package that supports control of the Fender Mustang range of amplifiers via USB, licensed under GPL3. It has dependencies on qt4 and libusb and is currently packaged through OpenSUSE. I've looked at the spec file and there are some minimal changes required to build on fedora and pass rpmlint. So, what's the next step? If necessary I can volunteer to maintain it myself (and would have to volunteer as a maintainer), but would be more than happy for someone else to take it.
Minor issue that still needs sorted out with .spec file: the source is hosted at bitbucket, which means that the source package gets downloaded through a redirection URL by commit id and also contains an extra subdirectory level, I haven't found a REST request yet that can get round that.
Thanks for your time,
"IM" == Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com writes:
IM> So, what's the next step? If necessary I can volunteer to maintain IM> it myself (and would have to volunteer as a maintainer), but would IM> be more than happy for someone else to take it.
Well, assuming that nobody else takes it, and also assuming that you're not already a packager, you can head to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers for the huge, massive list of steps involved.
IM> Minor issue that still needs sorted out with .spec file: the source IM> is hosted at bitbucket, which means that the source package gets IM> downloaded through a redirection URL by commit id and also contains IM> an extra subdirectory level, I haven't found a REST request yet that IM> can get round that.
That's OK; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Troublesome_URLs tells you what to do.
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On 30 March 2012 00:25, Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu wrote:
"IM" == Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com writes:
IM> So, what's the next step? If necessary I can volunteer to maintain IM> it myself (and would have to volunteer as a maintainer), but would IM> be more than happy for someone else to take it.
Well, assuming that nobody else takes it, and also assuming that you're not already a packager, you can head to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers for the huge, massive list of steps involved.
Thanks, might try it if I have a particularly boring day.
IM> Minor issue that still needs sorted out with .spec file: the source IM> is hosted at bitbucket, which means that the source package gets IM> downloaded through a redirection URL by commit id and also contains IM> an extra subdirectory level, I haven't found a REST request yet that IM> can get round that.
That's OK; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Troublesome_URLs tells you what to do.
Is it acceptable to repackage the tarball too? The prep stage seems to expect a particular structure within it.
On 4 April 2012 10:42, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Ian Malone wrote:
Is it acceptable to repackage the tarball too? The prep stage seems to expect a particular structure within it.
%setup takes some arguments to deal with strange tarballs.
That looks like the thing, thanks for the pointer.
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