[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Wed Sep 12 12:33:06 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of unity
+desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long additionally
+maintains
+also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the packages the open build
+service https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME%3AAyatana
+It actually builds install-able and usable packages for Fedora and
+openSUSE. This week we'll give an official announcement that unity works on
+openSUSE and will make a live CD available based on openSUSE with unity. We
+would also like to see Mageia running unity, but this would not be done by
+us ( I am mainly working on openSUSE, Xiao-Long is working on Fedora and
+openSUSE). But I offer my help, if you want to do it also with obs on
+GNOME:Ayatana. At the moment the structure of a package is as follows:
+
+=> Package
+===> package.tar.gz
+===> %name-Fedora_17.spec
+======> Fedora-123.patch
+======> Fedora-456.patch
+
+===> %name.spec (could be also %name-openSUSE_%version.spec)
+======> openSUSE-abc.patch
+======> openSUSE-def.patch
+
+===> PKGBUILD (for Arch Linux builds, at the moment you won't see lots of
+them, Xiao-Long is converting his arch packages from aur to go to OBS at
+the moment)
+======> Arch-xyz.patch
+
+There are users of Mageia who would love to see it in Mageia:
+https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=130
+It would't need to be done that much to get it working on Mageia. The spec
+files for openSUSE and Fedora are quite similar and based on each other.
+I experimented with the Mandriva backend to package myself unity for
+Mandriva and/or Mageia too, but the package naming are way different from
+the ones of SUSE and Fedora which are quite similar. It would need to be
+done for every package in GNOME:Ayatana to copy a spec file from suse or
+fedora as %name-Mageia_%Mageia_ver.spec and adjust the BuildRequires,
+Requires and the naming. Additionally it would be needed for packages that
+are only packaged with patches to add the Mageia sources and add the Mageia
+Patches to apply.
+
+At the moment it is worked on the Mageia OBS backend, when it is fixed, is
+there someone here interested in adjusting the spec files to Mageia?
+
+Best regards,
+Damian Ivanov
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