packaging October 2022

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license of the binary policy
by Jilayne Lovejoy 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Hi Fedora legal and packaging, I'm cross-posting this, as I think it's relevant to both groups. The current policy for filling out the license field of the spec file (as described at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelin… ) states, "The License: field refers to the licenses of the contents of the binary rpm. When in doubt, ask." As we consider how to improve documentation related to Fedora licensing, it would be helpful to hear people's thoughts on the following: 1) how do you (package maintainers) interpret this policy in practice? 2) what further information/documentation about this policy would be helpful? 3) should this policy be different, and if so, how? 4) any other related thoughts or observations Thanks! Jilayne

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Automatic virtual provides for RPM macros?
by Miro Hrončok 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Hello, today at Nest, somebody said "unfortunately, there is no way to tell what package to install to get a particular RPM macro". I think that having an RPM provides generator for "rpm-macro(__python3)" or similar should be a fairly simple exercise. Would you folks consider that useful? -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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Janus: doxygen web dependencies
by Renich Bon Ćirić 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Hello, Recently, I started packaging janus-gateway. I've run into a wall when dealing with the documentation and demos, though. They require jquery, bootstrap (js library only) bootswatch (themed bootstrap) in order to be able to function properly. The docs and demos are available here respectively: https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/docs/ https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/demos.html In order to make them available in Fedora, I was told to follow: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/JavaScript/ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Web_Assets/ So, do I have to package and build bootswatch, bootstrap and jquery (v1.9 it seems) and all their dependencies; then patch the documentation so it consumes them in order to provide them (the documentation and demos sub-packages)? If so, can I omit these two for now so I can publish the package ASAP; while I continue to work on the documentation and demos sub-packages? Thank you.

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Intersection of 2 arches macros
by Miro Hrončok 06 Oct '22

06 Oct '22

Hello packaging folks. I was in need of computing an intersection of 2 arches today. Consider this: %java_arches: aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 %my_arches: i686 x86_64 Plan: ExclusiveArch: <intersection of %java_arches and %my_arches> Is there some idiomatic way of doing this? I came up with: ExclusiveArch: %(comm -12 <(echo %{java_arches} | tr ' ' '\n' | sort) \ <(echo %{my_arches} | tr ' ' '\n' | sort) | tr '\n' ' ') Which I consider quite horrible. I was considering Lua to avid shelling out to nested Shell, but Lua has no easy sets, so the code would be much longer. Is there some easier way? Should there be? Something like: ExclusiveArch: %{arch_intersect %java_arches & %my_arches} Note the & that serves as a separator, otherwise the arches would be mixed and would need to be put in some kind of quotes. Alternatively, the macro names could be passed instead to avoid a need of a separator ExclusiveArch: %{arch_intersect java_arches my_arches} (Both approaches allow to intersect arbitrary number of sets.) -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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