[Mageia-dev] bumblebee in mageia (and mentoring)

[simple w8]

2012/4/10 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 19:35, simple w8 <simplew8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> %install
>>>> make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} \
>>>
>>> %makeinstall_std
>>
>> Here you really need to spefify them, with %makeinstall_std  fails
>
> %makeinstall then ?

It also fails, i did tried both macros.

>>>>     libdir=%{_libdir} \
>>>>     usrlibdir=%{_libdir} \
>>>>     exec_prefix=%{_prefix}
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> optidesk.spec
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Name:           optidesk
>>>> Summary:        Tool to configure .desktop files to run with optirun
>>>> Group:          Graphical desktop/Other
>>>> Version:        0.1
>>>> Release:        1
>>>> URL:            https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/optidesk
>>>> License:        GPLv3
>>>> # source from git repo git://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/optidesk.git
>>>> Source0:      %{name}.tar.xz
>>>
>>> Tarball needs to be versioned.
>>
>> I did add a comment saying its from git, but i usually use to create a
>> macro and put some like this:
>>
>> Source0:      %{?git:%{name}}%{!?git:%{name}-%{version}}.tar.xz
>>
>> but still there isnt any version released
>
> Yes but you should add one, like the date of the snapshot, or the
> hash. Else different tarball from git will have the same name.

Yes it does make sense.

>>>> BuildArch:    noarch
>>>> Requires(post):       dkms
>>>> Requires(preun):dkms
>>>
>>> Needs to require dkms.
>>
>> AFAIK dkms its only used in post and preun scriptlets., so why add
>> another plain require?
>
> Because you need to have it on the system to get this module rebuilt
> when you install a new kernel, not only when you install this package

If we add a plain require theres no need to have requires in
scriplets, at least more recently that was clarified, a plain require
is enough.