October 2007 - openSUSE Packaging - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-packaging] -lang subpackages
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi, maybe I missed some announcement or document but I noticed that some packages (seems mainly Gnome ones) splitted the locale files out into an extra %{name}-lang package. What's the purpose of doing that? Is there any package conventions document about it? Is it to prepare an en-US only media and keeping the package sizes as small as possible? Wolfgang --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] kernel-*.spec fixed strings are no fun
by Jan Engelhardt 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hi, the kernel-*.spec files contain a lot of hardcoded strings, such as 2.6.22.1 for what's currently cooking. This causes a major pain when trying to bump the version by oneself. All occurrences need to be replaced by more-or-less blunt scripts (simple perl -pe 's///'), since the .in files are not available. If these could please be added to the kernel-source pack, that would greatly simplify work. Moreover, I think that strings, where possible, should be replaced by rpm tags. For example this obvious one: Provides: kernel = 2.6.22.1-%source_rel (and other places) this can easily be replaced by %version-%source_rel. The other major thing being Name: kernel-default (and other places of course) which could be replaced - since the macro is already there - by Name: kernel-%build_flavor thanks, Jan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] kmp builds fail
by Jan Engelhardt 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Trying to build some kmp removes module-init-tools from the buildsys, but which is BuildRequired:. I suppose lbulid does not properly expand macros, since BuildRequires: module-init-tools comes from /etc/rpm/macros.kernel-source that is inside the buildsys, and probably not installed yet. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] lbuild and the strangeness of kernels
by Jan Engelhardt 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, with lbuild-10.3, the following oddity happens: keeping kernel-bigsmp-2.6.22.9-ccj54 keeping kernel-default-2.6.22.9-ccj54 installing kernel-regular-2.6.22.9-ccj54 [...] keeping kernel-xen-2.6.22.9-ccj54 keeping kernel-xenpae-2.6.22.9-ccj54 [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- building kernel-syms.spec (user abuild) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- + exec rpmbuild -ba --eval '%define _srcdefattr (-,root,root)' /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/kernel-syms.spec error: Failed build dependencies: kernel-default is needed by kernel-syms-2.6.22.9-ccj54.i586 With lbuild-10.2, all is fine, even though sl10.3.conf is only slightly changed from sl10.2.conf to accomodate the different package names (I've did it myself before the novell sl10.3.conf was posted). Something related here? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Library naming
by Jan Engelhardt 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, I notice, for example, -rw-r--r-- 1 455 5200 66727 Sep 22 00:02 libelf0-devel-0.8.9-17.i586.rpm while I agree with the new naming scheme (libelf0), I do not for -devel packages that cannot reasonably be installed alongside each other. Think of libelf0-devel and libelf1-devel which both provided a file with the same path. Without starting religious issues, would not it be better to just continue on naming such devel packages libelf-devel, without a number, like Debian? That would also reduce newly Obsoletes: tags, because now, a libelf1-devel would need an Obsoletes/Conflicts: libelf0-devel, and that's not really helping. In cases where -devel packages can be coinstalled (imagine libxml2 and a fictious libxml3 with /usr/include/libxml2 and /usr/include/libxml3, respectively), the number should be kept of course. Just a suggestion, it's too late for 10.3 anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] lbuild definition for 10.3
by Jan Engelhardt 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi, has someone from Novell already created a /usr/lib/lbuild/configs/sl10.3.conf/factory.conf configuration and would like to share it? thanks, j --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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