Self-Introduction: Christian Jodar (Tian)

[Paul Howarth]

tian at c-sait.net wrote:
> I will do required changes. But I won't be able to do so before tonight
> (GMT +2). In the meantime, I have some remarks/questions.
> 
> 
>>RPMs should be built from pristine source. As such, unless there's a
>>super-extra-special reason, this should be
>>http://download.gna.org/gcfilms/gcfilms-5.0.tar.gz.
> 
> 
> OK. In fact, I generated a special .tar.gz for the RPM creation. But I
> will change that to use the offical one (that is also downloadable).
> 
> Previous .tar.gz was created with correct tree structure, containing
> /usr directory and sub directories with files. If I use the other ones,
> I will have to this stuff in the %build section. Am I right? This
> application is a pure Perl one, so it doesn't require any compilation.

Perhaps you could take a look at the spec file template for perl modules 
in the fedora-rpmdevtools package and base the build phase of the 
package on that?

>>>%dir %{_datadir}/gcfilms/doc
>>>%doc %{_datadir}/gcfilms/doc/README
>>>%doc %{_datadir}/gcfilms/doc/CHANGELOG
>>
>>This sort of stuff should be in %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-%{version}.
> 
> 
> I thought that specifying %doc leads to copy the files in the correct
> directory. If I use the Source0 mentionned before, these files are for the
> moment in the .tar.gz root directory.
> 
> With new version, would that be correct to have:
> 
> %dir %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-%{version}
> %doc README
> %doc CHANGELOG
> 
> ? Maybe the %dir line is useless.

Correct; you can reduce this to:
%doc README CHANGELOG

> > Or should I before in the %build step copy them to
> %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-%{version} and use this path in the %files
> section?

No need to do that.

Paul.