On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:05:48PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I've started a page for updating the packaging guidelines. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/OCaml > > At the moment it's a straight copy of the packaging guidelines except > that I've updated 'ocaml-foolib.spec' from my private copy of that > file. > > Some ideas: > > - how useful is the whole '%opt' stuff now that we have native > compilation on every Fedora architecture? > > - use of chrpath and strip > > - should we finally distribute ocaml-find-requires/provides with > upstream RPM? They haven't changed in a long time. > > - note about some common rpmlint errors: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433783 > > - ISO-8859-1 - should we ban it from *.ml & *.mli files? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434694 > > - camlp4/camlp5 syntax extensions are a bit different from a > distribution point of view. They usually don't need a -devel > package, and they require *.cmo files to be distributed. > And sometimes they should be noarch. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435431 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435299 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435293 And while I remember: - ocaml-pcre-devel pulls in ocaml-pcre and pcre. However it doesn't pull in pcre-devel, so you cannot actually 'devel'op software with this package: programs will fail to link because of missing -lpcre. This may be a general problem with all our packages which use C libs, although for some reason I've only hit it with this one. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
