Re: [Gaim-devel] RPM dependencies for SuSE Linux - patch

[Bjoern V. <bj...@cs...>]

On 7.1.2004 James Ogley <jam...@pi...> wrote:

> > If there are SuSE users here, please test the patch.
> > There is a small remaining problem: SuSE Linux 8.2 and 9.0 uses
> > /opt/gnome as Gaim's prefix. Gaim's spec file uses %{_prefix} which is
> > normally /usr as the prefix. I have not changed this because this
> > causes much changes in the gaim.spec file.=20
>=20
> No no no, this is all wrong, SuSE 8.2 uses /opt/gnome2 for a start...

Not really. SuSE 8.2 uses /opt/gnome for GNOME 1.4 programs and
/opt/gnome2 for GNOME 2.2 programs. SuSE 8.2 includes Gaim
0.59.8. This is a GTK1 program and SuSE puts this in /opt/gnome. I
checked this in ARCHIVES.gz (first CDROM of SuSE 8.2).=20

If usr-local-bin builds Gaim>0.60 in /opt/gnome2 this is also good.=20

But what is the consequence, if Gaim's new rpm spec file builds Gaim
in a different location, for instance /usr (my patch) or /opt/gnome2?
All this paths are in $PATH and Gaim is found. The only problem can
be, that Gaim doesn't show up in the menus of Gnome or KDE. This may
be hard to fix, because SuSE<=3D8.2 uses the susewm system and SuSE 9.0
uses a new menu system which is backported from KDE 3.2 and uses a
freedesktop standard.=20

I know that Gaim's rpm spec file cannot be as good as a hand-optimized
rpm spec file for a specific distribution.=20

But I want a spec file, which is usable for SuSE without modifications
for people who like to install Gaim from source with=20

    rpm(build) --tarball -tb gaim-0.75cvs.tar.gz

or something similar. usr-local-bin's build will be even better. By
the way, thanks for www.usr-local-bin.org, it's great!

> Gosh, what else is wrong, you need to use rpath to make sure the Mozilla
> libs are picked up.

If has downloaded the spec file from www.usr-local-bin.org for Gaim
0.74 and compared it with my version. My spec patch also has
rpath. Please take a lot on it.=20

> Yes, SuSE 8.2 lacks gtkspell, but it's available from the usr-local-bin
> APT repository.

This is true. But I don't know, if everyone knows it. gtkspell is hard
to find. If gtkspell is optional it may be better to remove it from
the dependencies.

> I've attached the spec file I use for www.usr-local-bin.org's packages -
> if I have time, I may merge it into the distributed spec and then
> produce a diff, or it could just be included as a separate file.

Good idea. You have much experience with rpm, please take a look on
it.

Regards, Bj=F6rn