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[opensuse-packaging] [library packaging policy] Example fixing of curl
by Richard Guenther 02 May '07

02 May '07

For the library packaging policy as discussed previously this is an example on how to fix an offending package. We take the example of curl, as we have (ick) compat-curl2 and compat-curl3 packages alread, which is a mess. Curl currently is split into curl providing the /usr/bin/curl binrary and the /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.X library and a curl-devel package with development files. The library packaging policy forces you to split off a libcurl4 package with just the libcurl.so.4* shared libraries. The library packaging policy forces you to rename curl-devel to either libcurl-devel or libcurl4-devel if you want to support development with different curl versions. We choose not to and rename it to libcurl-devel which will depend on libcurl4 for this version. For the renaming you need a proper Provides: curl-devel and Obsoletes: curl-devel dependency for update to work. The split off of libcurl4 does not require anything special as shared lib requirements will take care of what is necessary. [Yes, I've started on the above, no need to do it for curl, but please consider fixing your package early if you ever had the need to provide compat-* packages and fix your package the next time you touch it otherwise] Thanks, Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther(a)suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Migration from TeTeX to TeXLive
by Dr. Werner Fink 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

This resolves Bug 178727 - TeX should be updated. ================================================= All maintainers of packages whic hare affected by this switch are listed in Bcc. Please read below to find you packages sorted by maintainer and package. TeXLive was submitted to STABLE/openSuSE. There are two spec files generated from a spec.in which a) provides the noarch files and b) provides the architecture dependent program files. This way was choosen by me due to fact that rpm does not support multi-architecture spec and rpm files. The packages have some sub packages depending on the usage, for noarch this is: * texlive (former tetex te_eplai te_ams) -> texlive-cjk -> texlive-context (former te_cont) -> texlive-devel (former te_kpath te_web) -> texlive-dvilj (former te_dvilj) -> texlive-latex (former te_latex) -> texlive-metapost (former te_mpost) -> texlive-nfs (former te_nfs) -> texlive-omega (former te_omega) -> texlive-xetex and for the architecture dependent packages this is: * texlive-bin -> texlive-bin-cjk -> texlive-bin-devel -> texlive-bin-dvilj -> texlive-bin-latex -> texlive-bin-metapost -> texlive-bin-omega -> texlive-bin-xetex Please note that all *bin package wil be PreRequired by their noarch package. This ensures that the binaries will be linked back to /usr/bin/ and that afterward one can install other architectures with `rpm -i'. Do never use `rpm -Uhv' for this to avoid overwriting the original architecture binaries. Deinstalling is simply done with `rpm -e' specifying not only name and version but also the the architecture type. On of the most interesting packages is texlive-xetex, which provides an UTF-8 _and_ fontconfig capability, which really extends TeX and LaTeX to XeTeX and XeLaTeX into the common world of UTF-8 and modern fonts, for a description see http://scripts.sil.org/XeTeX. The XeTeX engine can also be used for ConTeXt formats and also provides pdf/dvi output. Replacements of TeTeX packages with TeXLive: -------------------------------------------- tetex -> texlive or TeX te_ams -> texlive or TeX te_eplai -> texlive or TeX te_kpath -> texlive-devel or Kpathsea te_web -> texlive-devel or WEB te_ptex -> texlive-cjk te_mpost -> texlive-metapost or MetaPost te_cont -> texlive-context or CONTeXT te_omega -> texlive-omega or Omega te_latex -> texlive-latex or LaTeX te_dvilj -> texlive-dvilj te_nfs -> texlive-nfs te_ptex -> drop Current known conflicts with TeXLive: ------------------------------------- HLaTeX -> texlive-cjk ??? HLaTeX-fonts-base -> texlive-cjk ??? HLaTeX-fonts-extra -> texlive-cjk ??? cjk-latex -> texlive-cjk ??? dinat -> texlive-latex ??? latex-beamer -> texlive-latex latex-pgf -> texlive-latex latex-ucs -> texlive-latex Possible extensions for TeXLive: -------------------------------- jadetex jadetex musictex passivetex xmltex gentle Don't know due no PTeX support anymore: --------------------------------------- jsclasses UTF-8 support with Xe(La)TeX of the new package texlive-xetex: -------------------------------------------------------------- see http://scripts.sil.org/XeTeX Maintainers and their packages: =============================== (PGajdos(a)novell.com) octave te_ams te_latex tetex scilab te_ams te_latex tetex xmbase-grok te_ams te_latex tetex yodl te_ams te_latex tetex (anicka(a)novell.com) cfengine te_ams te_latex tetex mediawiki-plugins te_latex tetex (anosek(a)novell.com) gtktalog te_latex tetex pdns te_latex tetex (bg(a)novell.com) lyx te_ams te_kpath te_latex te_web tetex (cgriffin(a)novell.com) xen te_ams te_latex tetex (cthiel(a)novell.com) latex-beamer drop latex-pgf drop (daniel.rahn(a)novell.com) gurlchecker te_latex tetex (dbornkessel(a)novell.com) gnu-crypto tetex (dkukawka(a)novell.com) hal-doc te_latex tetex (dmueller(a)novell.com) xdg-utils te_latex tetex (duwe(a)novell.com) OpenIPMI te_latex tetex (freitag(a)novell.com) gocr te_ams te_latex tetex taskjuggler te_ams tetex (garloff(a)novell.com) gsl te_latex tetex (gnome-maintainers(a)suse.de) dia te_latex tetex evince te_kpath tetex gnome-power-manager te_latex tetex gnumeric te_latex tetex gpdf te_ams te_latex tetex gstreamer010 te_ams te_latex tetex inkscape te_latex tetex librsvg te_latex tetex mergeant te_latex tetex (hare(a)novell.com) emacs-calc te_ams te_latex tetex emacs-vm te_ams te_latex tetex (hmacht(a)novell.com) ConsoleKit te_latex tetex (jj(a)suse.de) cln te_ams te_latex tetex (jmatejek(a)novell.com) python-pyx te_ams te_kpath te_latex tetex tla-load-dirs te_latex tetex (jreuter(a)novell.com) asl te_ams te_latex tetex xzgv te_ams te_latex tetex (jsmeix(a)novell.com) sane-backends te_ams te_latex tetex (kde-maintainers(a)suse.de) kdegraphics3 te_ams te_kpath te_latex tetex (ke(a)novell.com) dinat te_latex tetex elisp-manual te_ams te_latex tetex emacs-lisp-intro te_ams te_latex tetex jadetex te_ams te_latex tetex susebuch te_ams te_latex tetex xmltex te_ams te_latex tetex (lmichnovic(a)novell.com) barcode te_ams te_latex tetex (mc(a)novell.com) krb5-doc te_ams te_latex tetex (mfabian(a)novell.com) latex-ucs drop cjk-latex extension HLaTeX te_ams te_latex tetex or extension HLaTeX-fonts te_ams te_latex tetex or extension HLaTeX-fonts-extra extension TeX-Guy te_kpath tetex VFlib3 te_kpath tetex cjk-latex te_ams te_kpath te_latex tetex cjk-lyx te_ams te_kpath te_latex te_web tetex gjiten te_latex tetex jsclasses te_ams te_kpath te_latex te_ptex tetex (mrueckert(a)novell.com) openhpi te_latex tetex openhpi-subagent te_latex tetex (ms(a)novell.com) iproute2 te_ams te_latex tetex (nadvornik(a)novell.com) freetype te_kpath tetex mc te_latex tetex (pasky(a)suse.cz) cogito te_latex tetex git te_latex tetex (postadal(a)novell.com) plucker te_ams te_latex tetex (prusnak(a)novell.com) deb te_ams te_latex tetex html2ps te_ams te_latex tetex mgetty te_ams te_latex tetex mtools te_ams te_latex tetex (pth(a)novell.com) apt te_latex tetex apt4rpm te_latex tetex libcaca te_ams te_latex tetex lilo te_ams te_latex tetex (ro(a)novell.com) kernel-docs te_ams te_latex tetex (sbeattie(a)novell.com) apparmor-parser te_latex tetex (sbrabec(a)novell.com) ec-fonts-mftraced te_ams te_latex tetex gftp te_ams te_latex tetex latex2html te_ams te_latex tetex lilypond te_ams te_kpath te_latex te_mpost tetex nethack te_ams te_latex tetex vigra te_ams te_latex tetex xboard te_ams te_latex tetex (seife(a)novell.com) ucblogo te_ams te_latex tetex (sndirsch(a)novell.com) avrdude te_ams te_latex tetex swi-prolog te_ams te_latex tetex (snwint(a)novell.com) gfxboot te_latex tetex (stefan.fent(a)novell.com) bochs te_latex tetex (tiwai(a)novell.com) mercurial te_latex tetex (tschmidt(a)novell.com) swamp te_latex tetex (werner(a)novell.com) a2ps te_ams te_latex tetex chess te_ams te_latex tetex clisp te_ams te_latex tetex dvgt te_ams te_kpath te_latex tetex elib te_ams te_latex tetex emacs-auctex te_ams te_eplai te_latex tetex gnuplot te_ams te_latex tetex lifelines te_ams te_latex tetex musictex te_ams te_latex tetex pcb te_ams te_latex tetex transfig te_ams te_latex tetex xemacs-packages te_ams te_kpath te_latex tetex -- Dr. Werner Fink <werner(a)suse.de> SuSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, Nuernberg, Germany GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) phone: +49-911-740-53-0, fax: +49-911-3206727, www.opensuse.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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[opensuse-packaging] Fwd: Status of SUSE Package Conventions
by Nikolay Derkach 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hello, I'm wondering what is the status of SPC. Which is the latest revision? On the page [*] I have 2 links on pdf version (rev 1.0) and html version (rev 1.1), the last contains only Part 1, that seems odd to me. [*] http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/SUSE_Package_Conventions -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach

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[opensuse-packaging] making -32bit packages with build
by Nikolay Derkach 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello, How to make -32bit compatibility packages on x86_64 system with build? I haven't found this in documentation, but I was told to use --baselibs option. How should I configure baselibs? -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach

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[opensuse-packaging] Gnome help documentation for application not completely shown from kde desktop
by Richard Bos 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Just wondering whether this is a package problem, or something else. Problem: the figures/pictures are not shown in the help manual when khelpcenter is used to display the help pages. When yelp is used the figures are there. I have a gnome/gtk based application. It comes with help pages that are located in: /opt/gnome/share/gnome/help/gramps/C/ As I use the nl version the help manual is stored at: /opt/gnome/share/gnome/help/gramps/nl In this directory there is: # /opt/gnome/share/gnome/help/gramps/nl> ls figures gramps.xml With many pictures/figures in the figures directory. Somehow all seems well. But when running the gtk/gnome application gramps in kde and ask it to show me the help manual, it's shown incomplete (no figures). Is this a packaging problem? Did I miss a kde configuration setting when package gramps (build server home:rbos)??? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 provider for /bin/sh" in openSUSE-10.3
by Richard Bos 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi, someone is testing my package for gramps on openSUSE-10.3 As I don't have 10.3 installed yet I can't test it myself. When installing the package, yast complains that there is "no provider for /bin/sh". What can be the reason for this? Is there anything to be updated to the package for opensuse-10.3? The specfile is locate at: http://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=gramps&project=home%3Arbos -- Richard Bos We are borrowing the world of our children, It is not inherited from our parents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] [autobuild] Library packaging policy, verify in filelist check
by Richard Guenther 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

This is a patch against filelist-10.3 to verify that (parts of) the proposed library packaging policy are followed. It's non-fatal right now as nearly every package fails it :P A few examples: > ~/bin/filelist-10.3 /work/built/dists/all/x86_64/packs-x86_64/libelf ... checking filelist libelf: "/usr/lib64/libelf.so" is not allowed in a non-devel package WARNING: Your package would fail here! libelf: "/usr/lib64/libelf.so.0" should be in a lib package with the .so version 0 appended, like libelf0 libelf: "/usr/lib64/libelf.so.0.8.9" should be in a lib package with the .so version 0 appended, like libelf0 > ~/bin/filelist-10.3 /work/built/dists/all/x86_64/packs-x86_64/libapparmor ... checking filelist libapparmor: "/lib64/libapparmor-2.0-45.so.1" should be in a lib package with the .so version 1 appended, like libapparmor1 libapparmor: "/lib64/libapparmor.so.1" should be in a lib package with the .so version 1 appended, like libapparmor1 libapparmor: "/lib64/libimmunix.so.1" should be in a lib package with the .so version 1 appended, like libapparmor1 libapparmor: "/usr/lib64/libapparmor.so" is not allowed in a non-devel package WARNING: Your package would fail here! But of course we also have conforming packages! > ~/bin/filelist-10.3 /work/built/dists/all/x86_64/packs-x86_64/libapr1 ... checking filelist Can we enable this in BETA now and STABLE soon? Thanks, Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther(a)suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-packaging] problem with gcc in 32bit mode on 10.2
by Marcus Hüwe 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hi, why can't i compile a program in 32bit mode on 10.2 on a x86_64 machine/machine? Here's a simple testcase: build:~# cat test.c int main(void) { return 0; } build:~# gcc -m32 -o test test.c /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status build:~# So it seems that a libgcc.a for 32bit is missing? build:~# find / -iname "*libgcc*" /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/arch/mips/lib/libgcc.h /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/libgcc_eh.a /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/libgcc.a /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 /installed-pkg/libgcc41-32bit /installed-pkg/libgcc41 build:~# If i try the same on 10.1 it all works fine because on 10.1 i have libgcc.a for 32bit mode: # on 10.1 build:/# rpm -qf /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/32/libgcc.a gcc-4.1.0-25 build:/# Is it a bug in the gcc package or is it my fault? Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Easy way to optimize startup time
by Dirk Mueller 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Hi, for a few weeks now openSUSE Factory has a binutils which supports -Bsymbolic-functions. This option causes global symbol references inside a shared object to be resolved locally if that is possible, e.g. if a shared library calls within one of its functions another exported function that is defines itself, then that one is encoded via a local relative jump, rather than going through the complicated and slow ELF semantics. This does break if an application is interposing a symbol, e.g. tries to replace one of the libraries public functions by one it defines by its own and expects the library to call the one the application provides. This is however rare and usually even is an unintended symbol clash. So, whats the advantage? of course that depends on the library type: C++ benefits a lot more than plain C libraries. I've tested it however successfully against small c libraries (e.g.) ncurses or dbus-1 as well as big c++ libraries (libzypp, boost, libstdc++,qt3). For e.g. ncurses it resulted in a 1.2% disk space saving and roughly 25% reduced relocation time (granted, its only measurable via LD_DEBUG=statistics). For qt3, it results in a 38% relocation time improvement and a 5.5% disk space saving. So, in short: if you know what you're doing, then use $LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions Dirk --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Question about GConf schemas in 10.3
by Aaron Bockover 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hello, I am trying to update Banshee's spec file to use the new GConf schemas macros [1] that Stanislav has come up with for 10.3, but am having some problems. I'm no packaging guru, and am finding it a little confusing. This may stem from the fact that Banshee has many different .schema files to install in each of its packages.0 I have %gconf_schemas_prereq at the top of the spec file and % find_gconf_schemas in my %install section. I think this is correct, but what I am unsure of is what to do for %files in each of the packages I am creating. Each package may have multiple .schema files to install, for example: %files plugins-default %defattr(-,root,root) %{sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/banshee-plugin-audioscrobbler.schemas %{sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/banshee-plugin-metadatasearcher.schemas %{sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/banshee-plugin-mmkeys.schemas %{sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/banshee-plugin-notificationarea.schemas Any clarification would be very helpful. Thanks & Regards, Aaron [1] http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial/GConf_scritplets --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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