packaging June 2008

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Package Revision Needed
by Henrique Junior 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hello, all I just finished the RPM for BkChem. The next step is to ask someone to check it? Any volunteer? Here they are: http://lspooky.fedorapeople.org/ Regards -- Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior <henriquecsj(a)gmail.com> Projeto Fedora Brasil

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Troubles with the .desktop file
by Henrique Junior 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Hi folks, I'm trying to create an RPM from the chemical drawing tool BkChem but: 1 - The software doesn't have an .desktop file So I created it myself and it looks right [1] 2 - But when creating an RPM I receive a message that some files are not packaged. Can someone, please, give some help? Here is the .spec [2] and the src.rpm that I made without creating an .desktop entry. [1] - http://lspooky.fedorapeople.org/bkchem.desktop [2] - http://lspooky.fedorapeople.org/bkchem.spec [3] - http://lspooky.fedorapeople.org/bkchem-0.12.2-1.fc9.src.rpm Thanks Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior ________________________________ "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?!" Novos endereços, o Yahoo! que você conhece. Crie um email novo com a sua cara @ymail.com ou @rocketmail.com. http://br.new.mail.yahoo.com/addresses

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Why is hard-wired version dependency required by Packaging/Tcl?
by Tom Lane 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

At https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Tcl I read Both arch-specific and noarch Tcl extensions MUST use Requires: tcl(abi) = 8.5 which seems more than a little bizarre when every other part of the page tells you that you MUST avoid putting hard-wired Tcl version number dependencies into your specfile. And it also tells you exactly how to extract the Tcl version dynamically. So why isn't this a better solution? Requires: tcl(abi) = %{tcl_version} regards, tom lane

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Adding mod_proxy_html to httpd package?
by Philip Prindeville 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

I recently found out that I needed but couldn't find mod_proxy_html.so for my FC7 system running httpd-2.2.8. Mod_proxy_html is GPL'd, so that's not an issue. It looks like it just drops right down into the modules/proxy/ directory and builds (with minor patching of the config.m4 file). I was thinking of tweaking the existing package to build mod_proxy_html as well, but put it into a separate %package. If I do this for fc7, is someone else willing to code review it and hopefully port the changes up to fc10 or rawhide? Thanks, -Philip

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Unclear in the use of %doc
by Andrew Bartlett 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

I'm a bit lost on the use of %doc for manpages. I'm building a package of Heimdal Kerberos, so I'm following a lot of the MIT krb5 package as a pattern. Should manpages be marked as %doc, or just other documentation? Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.

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Non-UTF8 gzipped manpages
by Andrew Bartlett 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I'm getting warnings on all the gzipped manpages (I'm instructed by rpmlint to gzip them) being not UTF8. heimdal-devel.x86_64: W: file-not-utf8 /usr/heimdal/man/man3/gss_krb5_ccache_name.3.gz The character encoding of this file is not UTF-8. Consider converting it in the specfile for example using iconv(1). Running: man /usr/heimdal/man/man3/gss_krb5_ccache_name.3.gz> /tmp/heimdal.txt [abartlet@naomi heimdal-mandriva-rpm]$ file /tmp/heimdal.txt /tmp/heimdal.txt: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with overstriking Indicates they are UTF-8, so what's going on here? I've attached this example to this mail. Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.

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Menu entries
by Henrique Junior 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, folks, I'm Henrique from Brazil and I'm trying to be a maintainer of a chemical drawing tool called bkchem. After some reseach and with Terje's help the job is almost done, but I'm not able to make the RPM create a menu entrie for the software. Can anyone helpe with this? In the source folder we see bkchem-0.12.2/images that contains icons with many resolutions and a splash screen. Thank you all Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior ________________________________ "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?!" Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

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Mounting Problem...
by Shobhit Gupta 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

hi all... i m new user of LINUX. i m using Fedora9 i dont hve much knowledge abt it but, i wanna learn it mn wrk on it... i gotta a prob after installation i m using LINUX along wid Windows XP & Vista i hve 6 partitions in total c is for win XP 32 bit d is for WIN Vista 32 bit e is for Fedora9 - 64 bit whn i open My Computer in LINUX, i am able to c all the partitions but not able to open any one of them except the one tht i use for Linux i searched for the solution on net i tried follow commands in the terminal:- su - yum install ntfs-3g it got installed successfull and i came 2 know abt it whn i retried this command 2-3 times. it showed tht i have already installed this component but still i m not able to use the partitions i really want to ba regular user of fedora as i like it... kindly help me out ... my e-mail address is shobhit_gupta_it(a)yahoo.co.in please reply me soon and help me out...plz... Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it on http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/bestofyahoo/

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More alternatives fun and games
by Orion Poplawski 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

I just removed the 32-bit emacs package from a 64-bit machine and /usr/bin/emacs went away, presumably because of: preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): alternatives --remove emacs /usr/bin/emacs-22.1 Is there any standard way we can avoid this? Count the number of emacs packages there will be after removal? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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How to package EPEL packages
by Gregory Hosler 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Fedora package, and i need to know the guidelines for creating a EPEL package. Any url's or wiki on this ? Thanks, and best rgds, - -Greg - -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information. ~ (from /var/log/Xorg.setup.log) | Greg Hosler ghosler(a)redhat.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIWKRZ404fl/0CV/QRAinaAJ0c8Zix97i6mEt/LUot6b5vsW2wfgCfWKsw q+21MkZOJymqGqvnTJl2md8= =9bqC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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