Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (235 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

By the way I have tested on KDE LiveCD and just by adding cinnamon
repo and running "zypper install cinnamon" everything works out of the
box. I assume some users have a problem with their systems. Everything
is working as intended.

NM

2012/3/17 Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Ralf,
>
> This discussion is off-topic... There is no issue at all with the
> Build Requirements neither with the Requires. The package has exactly
> the Requires that it needs to work on GNOME system. The internal RPM
> dependency generator made a good job and the extra Requires (ex:
> python-gconf) are present.
>
> The main issue with Cinnamon is that it require the whole GNOME
> infra-structure present (gnome-session, gsettings, etc) which is
> installed by GNOME. On KDE users some of those deps aren't
> pulled/installed properly, furthermore, Cinnamon is built against the
> GNOME version present in the Distro, so people running other repo's
> might get issues (which is their own problem, not mine).
>
> The only thing I see to ensure that Cinnamon gets properly deployed on
> non GNOME installs is to have Requires for all the packages that are
> part of the GNOME3 pattern... But this is bloating software.... And
> even if I have a pattern (which exists since day zero), I don't feel
> it's right to bloat it, neither it solves this issue because if you
> install the package from http://software.opensuse.org it will still
> install the package and not the pattern.
>
> This discussion has gone way off-topic, this is a deployment issue
> under certain conditions and not a build/dependency generator issue.
>
> NM
>
> 2012/3/17 Ralf Lang <lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > In my opinion, EVERY Build-Require line should get a companion comment
> > > about why it's needed. E.g:
> > > #Require: package-y not enough, hidden need for path/file from package-z
> > >
> > > This way there could be a cronjob on obs that does a "grep -B1
> > > Build-Require *.spec" to find out these sources of Build-Require.
> > >
> > > Best would be a automated mail to the maintainers of the not well
> > > declared packages that cause the need for Build-Require later.
> > >
> > > Yes, there are exemptions, where Build-Require are the best solution,
> > > but these are not the cause for most of the trouble missing Require
> > > lines in still successful building packages cause.
> > >
> > > Cinnamon is just one of the packages where this case hits.
> > >
> > > If there would have been a pattern "Cinnamon" from the start, the
> > > missing Requires could have been totally overlooked, because the
> > > needed packages would have been pulled in by the pattern already.
> > >
> > > That said, how should a user react to such a case of missing Require
> > > lines, and, could we get a item in the FAQ / Wiki elaborating this,
> > > for future reference?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > - Yamaban.
> >
> > The packages needed for building (gettext builder for example) and the
> > packages needed for running (web server, database, plugin libraries) can be
> > completely unrelated. While I like comments on requires and BuildRequires
> > (I'm currently building an autogenerator which should mind "manual" entries)
> > I see no relation between Requires and BuildRequires. Moreover, beautifying
> > existing working specs is not a popular task and nagging packagers with
> > reminders for technically irrelevant comments would not make everybody
> > happy.
> >
> > Usually for building you need a lot of -devel stuff which should not be
> > installed just to run a product.
> >
> >
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> Nelson Marques
> // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of
> bread in the middle...



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