Packaging question (new packager)
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 00:24:35 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:19 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I have a few questions on the "proper" (Fedora) way that this utility
> should be packaged up however.
>
> remind includes a couple scripts: rem2ps, tkremind, cm2rem.tcl to name
> a few that obviously would depend on TCL/TK being present on the
> system. Is the proper way to handle this to make a subpackage for
> these few scripts (remind-extras or remind-gui, etc)? Or, since remind
> itself works fine without them, just to exclude them completely from
> the RPM? Or perhaps throw them in /usr/share/doc ...
I would put them in a subpackage that Requires: tk.
> Also, remind distributes their source with a source tarball name as
> follows:
>
> remind-03.00.24.tar.gz
>
> This corresponds with v3.00.24 of the program. I've left this version
> number intact in my spec file, but perhaps I should tuncate it to
> 3.00.24? The naming guidelines don't seem to cover a scenario like
> this. I left it at 03.00.24 because it made my %prep and %setup steps
> simpler. :)
Following upstream is fine. Just make sure you are careful with ordering
as versions change.
~spot
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