[Mageia-dev] help packaging lilypond

Wed Aug 10 18:20:41 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 10 août 2011 à 01:30 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
+> Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
+> > 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.
+> >
+> > 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
+> >
+> > Can you please explain this in more details? I would appreciate it.
+> 
+> The short answer is filetriggers, which are automatically invoked by the build 
+> system when the need is detected.
+> You can find them at /var/lib/rpm/filetriggers/.
+> 
+> There is a script for the scrollkeeper function.  It was actually replaced by 
+> rarian some years ago, but the old name was kept.  And now filetriggers 
+> automatically invoke the appropriate script when the need for this function is 
+> detected.
+> 
+> Mageia has aggressively cleaned spec files of packages, to remove references to 
+> scripts no longer required.  This makes the spec files a lot easier to 
+> maintain.  Mandriva (from which we forked) contained a lot of unnecessary 
+> script references.  This is probably true of many distros.  As well, note that 
+> each distro has their own set of filetriggers.
+
+In fact, only mandriva and mageia has the filetrigger patch to rpm,
+iirc, even if dmorgan is pushing this upstream. 
+
+and having this done upstream would help to have a common set of
+scripts.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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