June 2013 - openSUSE Packaging - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-packaging] CrossToolchain question
by Matwey V. Kornilov 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Hi, In CrossToolchain:avr, I see avr-gcc-* and cross-avr-gcc. What is the difference? What is correct naming? (I suppose the last one). What guidelines/rules should I follow to create CrossToolchain subproject for yet unsupported arch? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Packaging Guideline enforcement
by Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Dear Factory contributors and packagers, As openSUSE 12.2 is frozen and Factory is 'open to go wild' again, I would like to announce that the packaging guidelines have some extensions (not really new) that will be stricter enforced than they used to be. Currently a common rule to be 'ignored' or packagers are not aware is around the topics of: - .Changes entries - Patches First, the .changes entry (rpm changelog) surves two purposes: - News for the user - History tracking of packaging changes (often referenced in bugs to verify if a user has the latest packaging bugfixeS). A simple "Update to version x.y.z" is, as before, not accepted. There should be some buzz around the update for the user; some major reasons to the upgrade should be listed Changes on the package itself should be mentioned in a way that any other contributor to the same package can follow traces of why something is the way it is. Commonly, Added (build)dependencies are interesting to be seen, special hacks to make something work in a particular way [..]: Always consider that package maintenance is a distributed task and various contributors need to be able to step up at will. Patches: The rules about patches are listed at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines . Most prominent is likely the mentioning of the patches life cycle, which forces you to mention additions and removals of patches in the changelog. As history shows, this can be helpful if a patch got removed, and later a regression is reported; finding out when a patch was removed can be crucial in reconstructing feature sets (including contacting the contributor that dropped it.. which is easily extracted from the .changes if listed) The main appeal is to the devel project maintainers / reviewers, to keep out for those rules, to live according to them, as it is frustrating for everybody if a package needs to be declined by the Factory Review team: - The dev prj maintainer is the one getting the 'decline' (as it was usually a forwarded request), which often leaves the 'fixing' to the devel project maintainers, where the 'originator' of the fix would have been willing to actually do that... And the Factory Review team also prefers to see complying submissions to having to reject SRs... reject is not fun for anybody! Looking forward to many more SRs to accept! Dominique / DimStar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] SONAME question
by Greg Freemyer 28 Aug '13

28 Aug '13

I just updated filesystems:ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs to have a new SONAME (83 -> 84) Do I need to add a Obsoletes: statement? Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Package looking for volunteers: CodeAnalyst
by Cristian Morales Vega 08 Aug '13

08 Aug '13

As per https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=793541 it seems CodeAnalyst needs a new maintainer. Any volunteer? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Libclutter and Gala for Pantheon
by Antoine Saroufim 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

Good day, I've recently attempted to repackage Pantheon, Elementary's Desktop Environment, for openSUSE 12.3. I was able to get almost everything to work by simply using Alien and installing the correct dependencies in the correct order. However, Gala, the window manager, wasn't working well at all. Gala was showing an erroneous rendering of animations. As such I've decided to port the libclutter that Elementary uses. Gala worked admirably well with that version of libclutter, but it was at the expense of the GNOME Desktop, GDM, and Lightdm. They couldn't use Elementary's Libclutter and I had to reinstall openSUSE completely to get rid of it (unisntalling and reinstalling didn't work). Zypper counts Elementary's Libclutter as a downgrade of the one provided by openSUSE 12.3. They use libclutter-1.0.so.0 and libclutter-gtk-1.0.so.0. My coding skills are too poor to port Gala to a higher level of Libclutter and I can't figure out how to make Gala use an exclusive version of Libclutter while the rest of the GNOME Desktop would use the default one. The majority of Pantheon apps work very well under openSUSE and thanks to the GNOME:Ayatana repo, we have most of the dependencies. Plank has already been ported and packaged by an openSUSE user. I was able to get Noise, Pantheon-files, Slingshot-launcher, and Wingpanel working. If someone is interested in repackaging Gala for openSUSE, we can have another desktop environment available. Sincerely, Antoine Saroufim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] games|Factory/xmahjong(g) package
by Dmitriy Perlow 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hello. Recently I've decided to play xmahjongg and surprised that I had failed to find out it in repos. So I made and submited it to games. When I opened a request to Factory, coolo answered that we already had xmahjong (not xmahjongg). I suggest to delete xmahjong and submit xmahjongg, that would provide and obsolete xmahjong :) Do I hear any objections? -- Dmitriy DA(P).DarkneSS Perlow / Linux x64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Is it only me ? osc tool broken
by Bruno Friedmann 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Since a few day I've osc broken osc --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/osc", line 24, in <module> osccli = commandline.Osc() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osc/commandline.py", line 82, in __init__ self._load_plugins() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osc/commandline.py", line 7926, in _load_plugins mod = imp.load_source(modname, os.path.join(plugin_dir, extfile)) File "/var/lib/osc-plugins/osc-collab.py", line 53, in <module> exclude_stuff.append(helper) NameError: name 'exclude_stuff' is not defined osc-0.140.0-103.1.noarch osc-plugin-install-0.22-1.1.noarch osc-plugin-overview-0.3.0-1.1.i586 osc-plugin-collab-0.96-12.1.noarch all coming from openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_12.3/ repository normal ? -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Basic git-archive --remote question
by Greg Freemyer 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

I'm trying to create a tarball from a git tag and I'm not getting logged in for some reason. What is the right syntax for: git archive --format=tar --remote=ssh://git@github/com/dkovar/analyzeMFT.git v2.0.4 > analyzeMFT-v2.0.4.tar The upstream git repo is at: https://github.com/dkovar/analyzeMFT Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] libortp
by Mariusz Fik 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

Hi, I'm working on update libortp[1]. For now, we have package named libortp8 and version 0.20.0. Updating to current release 0.22.0 bumps so from 8 to 9. And now I have a dilemma, should I create a new package named libortp9 and let it reside along with libortp8 or create libortp (and avoid re-adding new package in the future when so gets higher number) and remove libortp8? [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=libortp8&project=devel%3Ali… -- Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Mariusz Fik openSUSE Community Member GPG: 5FCE 7241 B3B9 32FD 455B C30E 42D6 6C88 9E83 7C3D

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[opensuse-packaging] Try to use BuildRequires ghostscript-mini[-devel]
by Johannes Meixner 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hello, this is a request to all package maintainers who have any kind of BuildRequires for Ghostscript in the spec files. I ask you to try out if it works for your particular packages when you use for building packages since openSUSE 12.2 only either BuildRequires: ghostscript-mini or BuildRequires: ghostscript-mini-devel in spec files that have any kind of BuildRequires for Ghostscript. Background information and reasoning: Since openSUSE 12.2 we have Ghostscript in the new source packages "ghostscript" and "ghostscript-mini" ("ghostscript-mini" is only a link to "ghostscript") and the Ghostscript fonts in the new separated source package ghostscript-fonts, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824 In particular regarding "ghostscript-mini" see https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=ghostscript-mini&project=Pr… Excerpt: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Minimal Ghostscript provides only the file format drivers in particular to output JPEG PNG PostScript and PDF files but no printer drivers (in particular neither 'cups' nor 'ijs') and no X11 drivers. The ghostscript-mini package is only meant to be used by the openSUSE build service to avoid possible loops in the build dependencies because ghostscript-mini has minimal build dependencies (in particular neither CUPS nor X11 build dependencies). For most packages which need to only run Ghostscript during build, a single line "BuildRequires: ghostscript-mini" should be sufficient in the RPM spec file. For most packages which need Ghostscript development files to build, a single line "BuildRequires: ghostscript-mini-devel" should be sufficient in the RPM spec file. ----------------------------------------------------------------- You should not need BuildRequires for ghostscript-fonts-* packages because ghostscript-mini has RPM requires for ghostscript-fonts-std and ghostscript-fonts-other to make sure that Ghostscript has its fonts, see https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?expand=1&file=ghostscript-mini… Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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