Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (214 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/2010 06:45 PM, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 06:36 PM, Malcolm wrote:
>   
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:18:56 +0200
> > Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > On 10/25/2010 06:06 PM, Malcolm wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:49:24 +0200
> > > > Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > > 4. leave the rest in and make them optional if building against
> > > > > > openSUSE
> > > > > >             
> > > > > I'm not sure if I understand. Why not removing macro completely?
> > > > >
> > > > >           
> > > > Hi
> > > > I imagine deprecated, not dropped as this would break how many
> > > > packages (lots)?
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > I meant dropping the macro in newest release (upcoming 11.4) of
> > > course. We can't remove macro from old SUSE distributions.
> > >
> > >       
> > Hi
> > But if it's present in a spec file to build 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and
> > Factory (aka 11.4) as well as SLE, then it should still work, or are
> > you saying I need to modify all my spec files just to build for factory?
> >     
>
> If we drop macro in Factory, then the following should work:
>
> --- in preamble:
>
> %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} < 1140
> BuildRequires: update-desktop-files
> %endif
>
> --- in %install phase:
>
> %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} < 1140
>   %suse_update_desktop_file %{name}
> %endif
>
>
>
> Usually you don't need to call anything. If you need to alter desktop
> file then you would use this:
>
>
> --- in preamble:
>
> BuildRequires: desktop-file-utils
> %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} < 1140
> BuildRequires: update-desktop-files
> %endif
>
> --- in %install phase:
>
> %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} < 1140
>   %suse_update_desktop_file %{name}
> %else
>   desktop-file-install ....
> %endif
>
>
>   
I maintain 6 packages that use one or more desktop files and then I have
a few more in my home project and sub projects not to mention
multimedia:apps that aren't in my home. It looks like a couple of hours
of unnecessary, mundane work for somebody who donates their time and is
also in the middle of a couple of major updates which will most probably
take another couple of weeks.
Dave P
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