On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:38:11PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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. And: - certain binaries should not be stripped https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435559 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
