[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Pacho Ramos pacho at gentoo.org
Wed Sep 12 21:09:51 CEST 2012


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 :)
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