[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Damian Ivanov damianatorrpm at gmail.com
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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20120912/76dd1792/attachment.html>


More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list