packaging June 2009

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java-devel pulls in gcj, not openjdk-devel
by Susi Lehtola 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

Hi, isn't nowadays openjdk-1.6.0-java-devel supposed to be the Java compiler we use always? I just noticed that the java-devel that is supposed to be used in spec files pulls in java-1.5.0-gcj-devel-1.5.0.0-28.fc11.x86_64 which made my jaxodraw compilation fail (gcj isn't supported). Shouldn't the provides: java-devel be removed from java-1.5.0-gcj-devel since this causes problems? -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org

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Proposal to explicitly allow dos2unix
by Alexey Torkhov 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

Hi. In guidelines in common errors section https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Rpmlint_Errors there is the following phrase: --- This error occurs because of DOS line breaks in a file. Fix it with sed in the %prep section: %{__sed} -i 's/\r//' src/somefile -- DONT use dos2unix, that can cause build fail on FC3. --- Because FC3 is not supported for long time, I'm proposing to change it to: --- This error occurs because of DOS line breaks in a file. Fix it with in the %prep section with sed: <code>%{__sed} -i 's/\r//' src/somefile</code> or dos2unix. --- Packaging draft is created at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Dos2unix and added to DraftsTodo page. Waiting for comments. Alexey

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Packaging:SysVInitScript questions
by Todd Zullinger 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

I was reading over Packaging:SysVInitScript to bring some packages into line with the current guidelines. The template and the text differ a bit on the reload function, or at least aren't very clear. The template includes: reload() { restart } [...] case "$1" in [...] reload) rh_status_q || exit 7 $1 ;; Later, in the 'Required Actions' section, reload is described: reload: reload the configuration of the service without actually stopping and restarting the service (if the service does not support this, do nothing) So, which is preferred? If I have a daemon that doesn't have any way to reload its configuration short of restarting, should we do as the template shows and call restart or should reload() be a no-op? In many current packages, reload() does a restart if there's no other way to reload the config. For the puppet init scripts I was looking at updating, I think keeping reload() as restart would cause the least amount of surprise, as that's what it does currently. But I'm curious what the prevailing wisdom is. On another subject, the 'Initialization of Environment Variables' section mentions that init scripts may be run by admins with non-standard environment variables, like PATH, and that the init script should set these to known/default values if needed. Would it be worth noting that PATH is explicitly set and exported in /etc/init.d/functions, so init scripts which source that don't need to worry about PATH, unless they need to extend the default PATH set in the function library (which is "/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin")? Lastly, does anyone know what tools use (or used) the processname: and config: tags? The current puppet init script contains these, just under description: and I'm wondering whether they are so old that we don't have to bother keeping them any longer. They've been listed as optional tags in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysvinitfiles for ages. I just don't know of anything that uses them. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man. -- Groucho Marx

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ISC license link need to be updated.
by paragn 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi, I see that ISC license is not exist at link https://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/dhcp/dhcp-copyright.php but its now available at https://www.isc.org/software/license. Can someone update new link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing? Regards, Parag.

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