Re: [Notion-devel] Fwd: Issues While Developing A Package For Fedora

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

On 11/03/2013 05:55 AM, Arnout Engelen wrote:
>
> Ah, sorry - with 'idem' i meant 'my previous statement also goes for 
> this' - in other words, I'd indeed like to apply this change to the 
> notion git.
Great! The patches are available both in the GitHub repo as well as from 
DropBox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n1icl72l63dy9tr/guxGW9Ll8t

Patches were generated on notion-3-2013030200.tar.bz2 with the latest 
repo version of notion-doc. You may need to play with the -p option to 
patch if you don't want to rebuild the whole tree. The patches are 
independent. They are as follows:

  * notion-3.2013030200.p00-man-utf8.patch - Modifies man/Makefile to
    run iconv after mkman.lua. Shouldn't cause Make to stop if it can't
    find iconv. There's probably a better way to handle this...
  * notion-3.2013030200.p01-fsf_addr.patch - Fixes the address for the
    FSF in libtu/rb.h and libtu/rb.c
  * notion-doc-3.2013030200.p02-css_newline.patch - rpmlint complained
    about doc/notion.css using <CRLF> instead of <LF>. I generated a
    patch for consistency and so that the build wouldn't fail if the
    builder doesn't have dos2unix installed. You should be able to just
    run dos2unix instead of installing the patch.
  * notion-3.2013030200.p03-ChangeLog_update.patch - Patch to replace
    the contents of ChangeLog with the output of gitlog-to-changelog. I
    only generated a changelog for the primary repo at the proper
    release tag.

>
> I don't think I use it - in any case added statusbar directory to the 
> script.
Yeah, I generally do a 'cp */*.lua /etc/notion' but I figured I should 
avoid such shortcuts. :) I've added statusbar to the contrib subpackage.

So I've successfully generated RPMs that pass the linter with only two 
outstanding issues:

  * No manpage for notionflux (I don't believe that this will cause much
    friction)
  * Non-binary files in /usr/lib. Not sure if this is an issue or not. I
    followed the file structure from the Debian notion-devel package.
    Any chance these can go in /usr/share/notion?
      o /usr/lib/notion/build/libs.mk
      o /usr/lib/notion/config.h
      o /usr/lib/notion/install-sh
      o /usr/lib/notion/libextl/libextl-makeports

Full RPM file lists are available at the above DropBox location under 
RPM_File_Lists. I've verified the RPMs build and install under Fedora 18 
(what I'm on), Fedora 19, and Fedora 20 (in beta). I've verified that 
the packages work fine under Fedora 18. Hopefully that will be sufficient.

Next step is to try to make the fool thing official.

Regards,
Jeff

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