[Mageia-dev] E17 packaging

Sat Oct 22 13:33:28 CEST 2011

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Philippe Reynes <tremyfr at yahoo.fr> wrote:
+> Hi,
+> I've tried to use E17, but it's an old version. I've asked e17 team,
+> and they answered me that E17 is "rolling release". So no
+> stable release (or vert vert few).
+> I propose to package svn version, so we could be up-to-date.
+> If a problem occurs, we could report it to upstream.
+> I've started such change, for example on eina, the change is :
+> Index: SPECS/eina.spec
+> ===================================================================
+> --- SPECS/eina.spec     (révision 151537)
+> +++ SPECS/eina.spec     (copie de travail)
+> @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
+>  %define major 1
+>  %define libname %mklibname %{name} %major
+>  %define libnamedev %mklibname %{name} -d
+> +%define svn r64257
+>
+>  Summary: Data Type Library
+>  Name: eina
+> -Version: 1.0.1
+> -Release: %mkrel 2
+> +Version: 1.1.0
+> +Release: %mkrel 0.%svn.1
+>  License: LGPLv2+
+>  Group: Graphical desktop/Enlightenment
+> -Source:
+> http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+> +Source: http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/%{name}-%{svn}.tar.bz2
+>  URL: http://www.enlightenment.org/
+>
+>  %description
+> @@ -32,9 +33,10 @@
+>  %{name} development headers and libraries.
+>
+>  %prep
+> -%setup -qn %{name}-%{version}
+> +%setup -qn %{name}
+>
+>  %build
+> +sh autogen.sh
+>  %configure2_5x
+>  %make
+> What do you think about doing it on all E17 package ?
+> regards,
+> trem
+>
+>
+
+i would add a comment on the spec file explaining how to create the
+tarball if we go to only use snapshots.
+That could help packagers to update it more often
+