[Fedora-packaging] Please help with vim/emacs files

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Mon Mar 27 18:46:06 UTC 2006


I'm packaging cmake 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184467> and I'd 
like to ship the emacs .el file and vim .vim files.  Currently, I have:

%package        emacs
Summary:        Emacs support for cmake
Group:          Development/Tools
Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires:       %{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp

%description    emacs
%{summary}.


%package        vim
Summary:        Vim support for cmake
Group:          Development/Tools
Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires:       %{_datadir}/vim/vim64/syntax, %{_datadir}/vim/vim64/indent

%description    vim
%{summary}.


%files emacs
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode.el

%files vim
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_datadir}/vim/vim64/syntax/cmake.vim
%{_datadir}/vim/vim64/indent/cmake.vim

Which I believe is the pedantically correct way to do it, but cumbersome 
as folks need to know to install the -emacs or -vim package as desired. 
  I do want to avoid requiring emacs and vim in the main package though.


Some suggestions have been:

- Another simplistic approach is to
1. install the files to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
2. include these in the main pkg (ie, no subpkg)
3. Add no additional/special Requires wrt emacs.

It's simple and it works (when emacs is installed, or any other package that
"owns" /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp).  At worst, when emacs is not 
installed, you
have files installed into an unowned dir.  IMO, the benefits of this 
approach
(mostly it's simplicity) outweigh the disadvantage of installing files 
into a
potentially unowned dir (site-lisp).


- Another possibility is to own "/usr/share/emacs". Several other
packages do this.


The second is discouraged in the Fedora Extras Packaging Guidelines 
except for a "good reason".

I like the first, but don't know what the issues with unowned 
directories are.  The packaging guidelines don't seem to address this 
directly.

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Orion Poplawski
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