Re: [Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath progress - svn revision 9

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Dear Andrew,

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:25, Andrew Ziem wrote:

> Some things I noticed while packaging an .rpm:
> * The SVN URL was hard to find because Tuxmath has so many web sites on
> Google.
> * RPM (at least Fedora's) doesn't like it when you strip the binaries
> because RPM itself separates the debuginfo into its own .rpm package.
> * Using "chown root" causes permissions errors while packaging.  By
> default, RPM assumes all files belong to root.

I take it you are referring to the "make install" part of the makefile.  I 
haven't touched this since I started maintaining tuxmath, and I honestly 
don't (yet) know enough about this to feel comfortable changing it, being a 
self-taught hacker rather than a professional.

> * You probably don't want .xvpics in SVN.
> * rpmlint found non standard permissions /usr/share/tuxmath 0751.  It's
> executable but not readable by others.

At least on my Debian system, the tuxmath binary is a 0755, both the one 
installed by the official Debian packaging system and the one 
under /usr/local installed by "make install".

> Also, it would be nice (for testing, for example) to be able to do
> "make; ./tuxmath" without doing an install, but tuxmath uses absolute
> pathnames.

I'll look into this.

> For other people to test, here's RPMs for Fedora Core 5, and the source
> RPM should rebuild on a variety of RPM systems.
>
> http://www.filelodge.com/files/room18/463092/tuxmath-0.9.svn.9-1fc5.i386.rp
>m
> http://www.filelodge.com/files/room18/463092/tuxmath-0.9.svn.9-1fc5.src.rpm
> http://www.filelodge.com/files/room18/463092/tuxmath-debuginfo-0.9.svn.9-1f
>c5.i386.rpm

I have been thinking of using some of my empty disc space for small installs 
of various distributions and maybe *BSDs for testing purposes.  I've never 
had an rpm-based system.  Sorry that I don't yet know enough to address these 
issues very well, but I'll do my best.

Thanks,
-- 
David Bruce