[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Wed Sep 12 21:09:51 CEST 2012

El mié, 12-09-2012 a las 12:33 +0200, Damian Ivanov escribió:
+> 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
+
+If I don't misremember, unity needs some unofficial patches to be
+applied to gtk+/glib and other libs, how have you worked with that
+problem?
+
+Thanks for the info :)
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