packaging December 2006

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27 discussions

scriptlets for user creation needed
by Thorsten Leemhuis 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

Hi All! thias and I had a small discussion on how to create handle useradd in specfile scriptlets. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217902#c3 and for details and http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/frozen-bubble/FC-6/frozen-bubble.… for the spec and the current solution. Is not really a serious issue, but we should IMHO solve it once and for all. Currently this two commands /usr/sbin/useradd -r -s /sbin/nologin -d / fbubble &>/dev/null || : /sbin/chkconfig --add fb-server are executed in frozen-bubble-server's %post each time -- e.g. not only on install but also on each update. That should do no harm, but looks a bit unclean IMHO. We should find a better scheme and put a template up somewhere that people can simply use -- otherwise we'll end with multiple slightly different solutions in our packages that trigger different bugs. I know there were (and probably still are) disagreements on how to install users in rpm files, but we should find a solution about as the current situation sucks. Could the PC at least work out an example on how to create users without ensc's stuff for now and put that up on http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets The we can search for the one and only proper solution later. Cu thl

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LSB/FSG's packaging summit on Wed, Dec 6th
by Axel Thimm 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Hi, the Free Standards Group will have its first packaging summit on Wednesday: http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_face-to-face_(December_2006) Some people from RH/Fedora like Paul Nasrat and Seth Vidal will be attending and presenting/discussing rpm and yum. Since I live a couple of blocks away I'll try to sneak in, if possible ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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iconcache scriptlets
by Rex Dieter 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

I posted this proposal awhile back: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ScriptletSnippets/iconcache Don't remember seeing much (any?) feedback, so everyone must agree with it. (: I'd like to get this discussed and ratified by the committee. -- Rex

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sparse 0.2, headers and static lib
by Matt Domsch 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

sparse 0.2 is out now, and includes header files and a static libsparse.a, but doesn't include a libsparse.so. Jeff Garzik in particular requested the static lib and headers for a project he's working on. So, I added a -devel package and put in the header files and sparse.pc. I've also put libsparse.a in there, but see the proposal for a -static package. Questions: 1) need -devel have a Requires: %{name}-%{version}-${release} if that doesn't include a shared library? I wouldn't think so, but it's a "Must" in the guidelines. 2) need I create a -static package for the static library? 3) if yes, should -static have a Requires: %{name}-devel-%{version}-%{release}? Should this go in the recommendations for all -static packages? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

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Missing today's meeting
by Ralf Corsepius 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

I'll probably not be able to attend today's meeting. Ralf

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Missing tomorrow's meeting
by Ville Skyttä 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

I'm not going to make it to tomorrow's packaging committee meeting.

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debuginfo of python packages / programms
by Till Maas 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hiyas, I am going to package offlineimap (http://software.complete.org/offlineimap/), which is a python programm. Rpmbuild only creates an empty debuginfo file, is this always the case for python programms / packages? Is it ok to disable the debuginfo package then with %define debug_package %{nil}? Regards, Till

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