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

[Andrew Z. <an...@sp...>]

David Bruce 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.
>   
Yes, "make install" is what I am referring to.  Typically, open source 
Unix-ish programs use autoconf, but a few use "make install" too.  
Tuxmath's "make install" just needs some clean up.  Maybe these will help:

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Directory-Variables.html#Directory-Variables
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Install-Command-Categories.html#Install-Command-Categories
http://tinyxml.cvs.sourceforge.net/tinyxml/tinyxml/Makefile?revision=1.14&view=markup 
(does not include install, but does show some "make" features)
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cday/cdayc/makefile?rev=1.12&view=auto 
(temporarily down right now)

... or find some other BSD/GPL "make install" program to copy.

>   
>> * 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".
>   
The tuxmath binary is OK here too, but what about the directory 
/usr/share/tuxmath (might also be /usr/local/share/tuxmath)?
>> 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.
>   
Maybe you can get the community to do the testing for you or try 
VMPlayer.  (You can try VMPlayer with EasyVMX or 
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html .)


Andrew