[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Wed Sep 12 22:05:39 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+You can easily review it here:
+https://build.opensuse.org/project/packages?project=GNOME%3AAyatana
+But to sum it up, for packages that are packaged in evert (normal)
+distribution we made packages %name-ubuntu
+so e.g for gtk3 we have a package gtk3-ubuntu which Provides and Obsoletes gtk3.
+But these packages are even not that much, namely: gtk2, gtk3,
+gnome-bluetooth (for bluetooth indicator), NetworkManager-gnome (for
+Network indicator), gnome-control-center, gsettings-shemas,
+gnome-settings-daemon and 3 xorg packages (were AFAIK ubuntu patches
+will be in the next upstream version)
+
+2012/9/12 Pacho Ramos <pacho at gentoo.org>:
+> 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 :)
+