[Mageia-dev] Libification of oxygen-gtk3

Mon Nov 28 17:52:58 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Juan Luis Baptiste at 28/11/11 14:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> Posted here as the officially listed maintainer hasn't actually updated
+>> the package according to svn, so I figured some exposure would be nice.
+>>
+> 
+> :O
+> 
+> That would be me :P
+
+\o/
+
+> But what I have to do to libify it ? I really don't have a clue of
+> what that means :(
+
+General info here:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Libraries_policy
+
+But in this particular case:
+
+
+The file list just now looks like:
+
+[colin at jimmy pulseaudio (master)]$ rpm -ql oxygen-gtk3
+/usr/bin/oxygen-gtk3-demo
+/usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/liboxygen-gtk.so
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/argb-apps.conf
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/icons4
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/kdeglobals
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/oxygenrc
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/special-icons
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/special-icons/standardbutton-closetab-16.png
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/special-icons/standardbutton-closetab-down-16.png
+/usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/special-icons/standardbutton-closetab-hover-16.png
+
+As you can see three things have been bundled together there:
+ 1. The demo binary
+ 2. The library used for the theme engine
+ 3. Architecture independent data files
+
+This means that if I want to have both:
+
+/usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/liboxygen-gtk.so
+ and
+/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/liboxygen-gtk.so
+
+installed at the same time, I'm out of luck.
+
+It is technically possible to have two packages of the same name
+installed at the same time, but only if the common files between them do
+not conflict. Even so this is somewhat ugly.
+
+So the idea is to package up the library part separately so that both
+version can be installed.
+
+In this case the library package should be called "lib64oxygen-gtk3"
+(aka "%mklibname oxygen-gtk3" in the spec file).
+
+
+Now in theory it might be nice to separate out the arch independent
+stuff and the test binary too. This would save space on the mirrors by
+only needing to have one version of all the artwork rather than separate
+copies for each arch (it's done with hard links), tho' in this
+particular case it wouldn't result in much saving.
+
+
+So you could but the test files in oxygen-gtk3-test, the library in the
+the afore mentioned library name and leave the oxygen-gtk3 package with
+data only and flag it as noarch.
+
+This isn't exactly how oxygen-gtk package does it (it puts the test
+binary and the arch independent stuff together in the oxygen-gtk
+package), but hopefully you catch the drift :)
+
+
+
+HTHs
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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