[Mageia-dev] E17 packaging

[D.Morgan]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Philippe Reynes <tremyfr at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've tried to use E17, but it's an old version. I've asked e17 team,
> and they answered me that E17 is "rolling release". So no
> stable release (or vert vert few).
> I propose to package svn version, so we could be up-to-date.
> If a problem occurs, we could report it to upstream.
> I've started such change, for example on eina, the change is :
> Index: SPECS/eina.spec
> ===================================================================
> --- SPECS/eina.spec     (révision 151537)
> +++ SPECS/eina.spec     (copie de travail)
> @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
>  %define major 1
>  %define libname %mklibname %{name} %major
>  %define libnamedev %mklibname %{name} -d
> +%define svn r64257
>
>  Summary: Data Type Library
>  Name: eina
> -Version: 1.0.1
> -Release: %mkrel 2
> +Version: 1.1.0
> +Release: %mkrel 0.%svn.1
>  License: LGPLv2+
>  Group: Graphical desktop/Enlightenment
> -Source:
> http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
> +Source: http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/%{name}-%{svn}.tar.bz2
>  URL: http://www.enlightenment.org/
>
>  %description
> @@ -32,9 +33,10 @@
>  %{name} development headers and libraries.
>
>  %prep
> -%setup -qn %{name}-%{version}
> +%setup -qn %{name}
>
>  %build
> +sh autogen.sh
>  %configure2_5x
>  %make
> What do you think about doing it on all E17 package ?
> regards,
> trem
>
>

i would add a comment on the spec file explaining how to create the
tarball if we go to only use snapshots.
That could help packagers to update it more often