Hey Anthony, It just occurred to me that you might not be on the packaging list so I thought I better resend this to you.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Lisp packaging draft Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:42:33 -0800 From: Toshio Kuratomi a.badger@gmail.com To: Discussion of RPM packaging standards and practices for Fedora fedora-packaging@redhat.com References: 4791022A.2080103@redhat.com

Anthony Green wrote:

For your review...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Lisp

Cool. Thanks for taking charge of this.

A bit of feedback: High level: * The guidelines need to be written so that a reviewer can effectively use them to decide if a package is conforming. This means that you might have to explain things that the packager will understand (since they come from a lisp background) but the reviewer might not.

Specifics: * What is adsf? Is it a format or a utility? If the former, how do we get libraries into that format, if the latter, how and when do we invoke it? * What differentiates a lisp library from another piece of lisp? * How do the various register/unregister commands translate to %post/%preun scriptlets? * What package are the register/unregister commands provided in? * What package provides /usr/lib/common-lisp? * What package provides /usr/share/common-lisp? * Why do we use /usr/lib/common-lisp instead of /usr/libexec/common-lisp? * What are fasls? * What provides /var/cache/common-lisp-controller? * What is being created in /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/<userid>/<implementation>/<library>/ ? * What creates those directories? Who creates those directories? * You mention compiling of libraries. Where do those get dropped on the system? What are the commands to generate those during %build? * It looks like some of the Debian Guidelines aren't going necessary for Fedora... for instance:: {{{ - register-common-lisp-source: does nothing }}} In Fedora, we try to avoid doing things that are no-ops.

I'm sure there will be more questions after these are answered and incorporated into your draft :-)

-Toshio