On Tue, 19 May 2020 10:47:57 -0400 Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I noticed that the i3 window manager wasn't available in EPEL8. Before > trying to go through the process of becoming a package maintainer I > decided to try and run it via copr to see how much modification was > needed. For EPEL8 (as opposed to 7) I was able to take the current > spec file and, after creating an EPEL8 copr repo for xcb-util-xrm ( > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djotaku/xcb-util-xrm/), it > would build. But it wouldn't install for it needed some perl > packages. So I set about building those. You can see how far I got in > ( https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djotaku/i3wm/packages/), > but each one had one or more dependencies. So I was rapidly along a > path towards having to recreate nearly all of Perl for EPEL8. (Only a > slight exaggeration). Unfortunately, for those, I couldn't just bum > the spec file because they each had a patch that needed to be > applied. So I had to download the repo from pagure, use spectool and > mock to create the srpm and then load that into copr. Quite tedious. Interesting what you say about the perl modules because perl-common-sense, perl-JSON-XS and perl-Types-Serialiser are available in the EL-8 Code Ready Builder / PowerTools repo, which is a dependency of EPEL-8: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#How_can_I_use_these_extra_packages.3F Is that repo not enabled in your EPEL-8 configuration? Paul. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
