May 2007 - openSUSE Packaging - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-packaging] automatic packporting of Factory packages
by Stanislav Brabec 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hallo. I wrote a script, which attempts to backport packages to be compilable on older products. It means replacing of Requires and BuildRequires by an appropriate %if. It is intended to prevent hardly maintainable %if %suse_version hell in Factory. If there will be an interest, I can maintain it in OpenSUSE:Tools. Usage is trivial: - cd to unpacked sources. - Run it. TODO: - Move configuration outside script (trivial). - Support for "this new name is already used in this repository" (trivial - delete appropriate line or use "%if %suse_version foo || 0%{?opensuse_bs}". (trivial) - Support for rules more packages -> anything (not so trivial) - Support for fixes of "has choice for" (already written, but it is not part of this attachment, because it has a large configuration. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/

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[opensuse-packaging] policy for naming devel packages
by Dirk Mueller 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, it was recently (in bugreport 277317) brought to my attention that we have three packages containing development files, but not being named with a "-devel" suffix: OpenOffice_org-sdk wnn-sdk xorg-x11-server-sdk I was wondering if there is a special policy regarding the -sdk suffix that I'm not aware of? Shouldn't those packages be named -devel? Thanks, Dirk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Packaging vanilla kernel
by Rafal Milecki 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hello, Could someone responsible for packaing vanilla kernel add module "bcm43xx" to this compiled version? I installed v2.6.22-rc1 but it doesn't include bcm43xx driver for my WiFi. -- Rafał Miłecki

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[opensuse-packaging] installing / updating / erasing apache2 modules
by Michal Marek 22 May '07

22 May '07

Hi, php5 in server:php currently has %preun -n apache2-mod_php5 if [ "$1" = "0" ] then if [ -x /usr/sbin/a2enmod ] then if a2enmod -q php5; then a2dismod php5 fi fi fi %postun -n apache2-mod_php5 %restart_on_update apache2 Is there some policy about this? I looked at other apache2 modules in the distro and these don't automatically restart apache and with the exception of mod_apparmor also don't enable the module, instead a README or the package description tells the user to do so. Also the security advisories for the modules say "Please close and restart all running instances of Apache after the update.". Is it time to handle this automatically, or should we revert the change in php? Michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] BIRT and Eclipse.org
by James Tremblay 22 May '07

22 May '07

I was wondering if anyone would know if the eclipse 3.2.1 includes the report-designer-all-in-one-2.1.2 and if it does not would someone package it? -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Novell CNE 3\4\5 CLE \ NCE in training. http://en.opensuse.org/education --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] perl directories
by Ludwig Nussel 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5'; installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5'; Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those variables the Debian way? That would also allow to install perl modules from newer/older distros as the exact version number is not encoded in the path. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE Labs V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] suse_update_desktop_file
by Stephan Kulow 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi! I added a check to the rpm macro that makes sure that desktop files don't contain X-SuSE-translate line - because most of the times this is a sign that people copied desktop files from living system without changing them. If you have desktop files from SVN somewhere, make sure the translations are either uptodate all the time or are stripped out of the files - including the X-SuSE-translate line. Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] OpenSUSE base system package list
by Carlos Ramirez 15 May '07

15 May '07

Is there a file, webpage or command that can provide a list of packages that are part of the OpenSUSE base system? For instance during the installation, I can see a list of tools that are part of the base system, where is that information being gathered from? I tried searching in various places without much luck. Any help in the right direct is appreciated. Thanks, -Carlos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Shared Library Packaging Policy (was: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10)
by Andreas Schneider 15 May '07

15 May '07

Andreas Jaeger wrote: > * Shared library policy > see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy > > If nobody raises objections, we'll move forward with it and add it to > the packagers manual. > > Note: This is not enforced for existing packages. It should be done > for major updates and must be done for new package submissions. > > AI: everybody to read and comment on opensuse-packaging mailing list. Hi, I miss somthing in the new package conventions. We should start to avoid -rpath. Packages should be built without -rpath and if they need a special path, a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ should be created. Google: "rpath is evil" The solution to get the libraries working without rpath is the use of ldconfig. Suppose you have the library /usr/lib/foo/foo.so.0. Then simply create a file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/foo with the path (/usr/lib/foo) as the content. Cheers, -- andreas -- http://www.cynapses.org/ - cybernetic synapses

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[opensuse-packaging] Project launch: openSUSE Software Portal / Application Manager
by Pascal Bleser 12 May '07

12 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (sorry for the somewhat exhaustive list of recipients, just trying to spread the word and hunt for participants) We had our kickoff openSUSE Software Portal project meeting today. The goals are to provide the best possible end-user experience with regards to package installation/upgrading at large. The idea is to provide several software components and services: * a server backend that aggregates various kinds of information * a web client, including one-click installation (yast2-mpp) * a desktop client (GTK/Qt/YaST) More information about the project: http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Portal http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2007/05/project-launch-opensuse-software-porta… Basic infrastructure is set up, so if you want to join the effort (any help is more than welcome), please subscribe to our mailing-list [1] We're definitely looking for Java/Python/YCP developers, web designers, artwork designers, and people with ideas, suggestions, and motivation. [1]http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/appinstaller-devel Please spread the word ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGRk8Hr3NMWliFcXcRAnufAJ9fU68sxeaKL8NoKKYWQRtuQKGRZQCdGHeU A/HjKGDtiVefXYQ9AjU6Kmg= =JH/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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