July 2009 - openSUSE Packaging - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-packaging] /srv usage
by Philippe Makowski 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi, I would like to know if there is any rule about using /srv ? Firebird package need a place to store databases files, and reading the FHS rules, it seems that it is the right place for that instead of /var/lib -- 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] hal moved from from /usr/lib64/hal/ to /usr/lib/hal/, or --libexecdir on x86_64 should not be /usr/lib64/<pkgname>/
by Kay Sievers 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hey, just a note, that HAL changed the location of its --libexecdir to be always in /usr/lib/hal and not in /usr/lib64/hal, regardless of the architecture it is running on. A few packages which drop files into the hal callout directories need to change their file list from %{_libdir} to %{prefix}/lib/hal now. It's a bit inconvenient, but we should fix all that now, and in the future applications who need to drop callouts, can just expect a well-defined location of these directories instead of some needlessly arch-dependent location to install. If you own a package which places its private directory in /usr/lib64/<pkgname>/, please consider moving it to /usr/lib/<pkgname>. Libexecdir is usually used for binaries which are used by the package and which should not be included in $PATH, and for directories to install callouts. The --libexecdir follows the same logic as --bindir, we do not have a /usr/bin64, therefore we should not have a /usr/lib64/<pkgname>/ directory. Package private directories are defined by LSB as: "Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data exclusively used by the application must be placed within that subdirectory." http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html Thanks, Kay -- 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] Factory submission overview page
by Stephan Kulow 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Hi, Today I wrote a litte script to show the current status of factory package submissions. The result is http://www.suse.de/~coolo/factory-status.html - it's not yet updated regularly as I plan to integrated build failure status into it, so you guys have one place to look for things :) If you think this could be more useful, feel free to tell me about enhancements. There are various pending submitrequests to devel project and existing diffs in the devel project that aren't yet pushed. This may be wanted, but it shouldn't be for currently failing packages (which is why I want to integrate that too). Greetings, Stephan -- 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] No .changes file in devel project
by Stephan Kulow 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Hi, It's important that the package in the devel projects is really the package that is developed for factory. As http://www.suse.de/~coolo/factory-status.html shows there are several packages that do not have a .changes file in the devel project - and then it's not ready to be branched. Please everyone responsible for the projects: clean up the packages to be ready to be branched - in doubt with a source link. Here the packages in question as taken from above link. Greetings, Stephan OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE OpenOffice_org-hyphen OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE OpenOffice_org-templates-de OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE OpenOffice_org-templates-en OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE OpenOffice_org-templates-labels OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE OpenOffice_org-templates-presentation-layouts OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE OpenOffice_org-thesaurus OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE apache2-mod_apparmor security:apparmor apparmor-parser security:apparmor apparmor-profiles security:apparmor apparmor-utils security:apparmor apparmorapplet-gnome security:apparmor btrfsprogs filesystems cups-drivers Printing dapl OFED:Factory hatari Emulators hercules Emulators ib-bonding OFED:Factory infiniband-diags OFED:Factory libapparmor1 security:apparmor libedit devel:libraries:c_c++ libibcm OFED:Factory libibcommon OFED:Factory libibmad OFED:Factory libibumad OFED:Factory libibverbs OFED:Factory libipathverbs OFED:Factory librdmacm OFED:Factory libsdp OFED:Factory logwatch server:monitoring mpi-selector OFED:Factory mvapich2 OFED:Factory myspell-dictionaries OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE nagios-plugins-nis server:monitoring openmpi OFED:Factory pcsx Emulators python-cmdln devel:languages:python python-gdata devel:languages:python python-lxml devel:languages:python python-paramiko devel:languages:python qlvnictools OFED:Factory rds-tools OFED:Factory simh Emulators srptools OFED:Factory tcptraceroute network:utilities tvflash OFED:Factory xclip X11:Utilities -- 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] Package blobbyvolley available to grep
by Holger Sickenberg 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, the package blobbyvolley is available to grep by a new packager. Anyone interested? Best wishes, Holgi -- 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_process_packlist build errors
by Takashi Iwai 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi, I see many build errors due to %perl_process_packlist on FACTORY. Typically the build ends like: + mkdir -p /var/tmp/nkf-2.0.5-build/var/adm/perl-modules /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77745: line 61: syntax error: unexpected end of file error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77745 (%install) The spec file just calls the macro without argument. It builds fine on older distros, and the problem is only on FACTORY. Is any fix on the way? thanks, Takashi -- 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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