[Mageia-dev] help packaging lilypond

Wed Aug 10 08:33:20 CEST 2011

2011/8/10 Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com>:
+> Thanks for fixing the spec file and submit the package.
+> I have a comment and a few questions. First the comment.
+> an experienced packager telling someone like me (and others not so experienced
+> packagers)  why the package build failed that built just a few month ago would
+> have helped learning how to fix things. Now the package is built and I still
+> don't know what the error message meant.
+
+The build failed because now there are some checks which prevents
+uploading "erroneus" packages. Check for empty %post and %preun is one
+of those added checks. There's no such macro as %update_scrollkeeper
+(or  %clean_scrollkeeper) so that's why your build failed. See 'rpm
+--eval %update_scrollkeeper'
+
+>
+> why can the scrollkeepr script be removed as not required when it was required
+> not so long ago and other distributions use it too. It supposed to be there if
+> you have omf files, and yes lilypond-doc has such files
+>
+
+It was me who removed the scrollkeeper reqs as I only looked at %files
+section and noticed there was no %{_datadir}/omf/ entry. The
+filetriggers looks
+
+> Can you please explain this in more details? I would appreciate it.
+>
+
+Sure
+