Re: GNOME 1.4 RPMs for RH 6.2 and 7.0

[Peter Bowen <pzb scyld com>]

I am working on a script to compare the output of manually compiling a
package vs. installing a RPM.  I think that this, plus a couple of other
checks, such as a customized version of rpmlint would be very helpful
for the GPP.  I would also like to get the checks bundled in to a
automatic build system that could be used for snapshot builds, similar
to the system used by Ximian/Eazel/Mozilla/...  I can use one of our
boxes around here for building, until a better solution is found. 

Thanks.
Peter

On 08 May 2001 23:46:30 -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On 8 May 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > So, has anybody actually tried these RPMs, other than myself?  How do
> > they look?  What are the bugs in them?  
> 
> [The following pertains to the RH 7.0 packages, although I expect it to be
> the same for the 6.2 packages.]
> 
> The main problem I've noticed in the RPMs is that many files default to
> user and group of gleblanc:
> 
> warning: user gleblanc does not exist - using root
> warning: group gleblanc does not exist - using root
> ...
> 
> Now that I'm looking at things (basically just doc stuff) a little closer,
> I see a few other problems.  They are:
> 
> 1) control-center, gnome-media, gtop, and glade don't seem to have any
> docs (sgml or html).
> 
> 2) These packages are missing omf files:
>       control-center
>       gnome-applets
>       glade
>       gnome-games
>       gnome-media
>       gtop
>       ghex
> 
> These are the ones where, at a short glance, I think the fault may be with
> the spec files (although I'm not looking at the spec files).  Other
> packages are missing these due to problems with the original packages,
> typically work which did not get done in time for 1.4.
> 
> Looking at the spec files in plain-gnome in CVS....
> 
> For (1):
> 
> $ fgrep help control-center.spec gnome-media.spec gtop.spec glade.spec 
> 
> control-center.spec:helps to make your computer easy to use.
> control-center.spec:Control-center-devel helps you create the 'capplets'
> control-center.spec:%{_datadir}/gnome/help/*
> gtop.spec:%{_datadir}/gnome/help/gtop/C/*.html
> gtop.spec:%{_datadir}/gnome/help/gtop/C/*.dat
> 
> So, it looks like gnome-media.spec and glade.spec are missing lines, while
> gtop.spec should be fixed.  I'm not sure what is going on with
> control-center.
> 
> Grepping through all the spec files in plain-gnome in CVS, it looks like
> there are several different entries in the %files sections.  Perhaps we
> should pick one which works well and use it uniformly.
> 
> For (2):
> 
> $fgrep omf control-center.spec gnome-applets.spec glade.spec
> gnome-games.spec gnome-media.spec gtop.spec ghex.spec 
> 
> control-center.spec:%{_datadir}/omf/*
> 
> Again, all of these spec files need an omf line added except
> control-center, which seems to be broken for some other reason.  Grepping
> through all the spec files, only control-center.spec, nautilus.spec, and
> scrollkeeper.spec have the omf directory explicitly listed under %files.
> 
> > I'd like to put them on ftp.gnome.org ASAP.  
> 
> That would be great.
> 
> BTW: It would be a good excercise to do 'rpm -qlp foo.rpm' for each of the
> plain-gnome packages and their {SuSe | Mandrake | Ximian} counterparts to
> see the differences and identify any relative omissions.  I think these
> other packagers left out a number of files as well.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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