On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:35:56PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I started untangling the mess in October but gave up after a frustrating > week. Fortunately I had the good idea to put the result on fedorapeople, > and lately Frédéric Crozat from Mandriva googled it and completed the > work. On hindsight it seems I had stopped just short of the finish line. > http://twinpeaks.dyndns.org/blog/general/2007/12/11/monitor-calibration-epilogue > > Since it'd be a shame to let my packaging work end up in Mandriva only, > I picked up his package, changed back a few bits, added some stuff I had > planned but not done yet, and pushed the result in the review queue: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421921 > > I'd appreciate if a friendly reviewer looked at the result. I've had a crack at packaging argylcms too but also gave up with the crazy JAM and static linking stuff. I'll give your packages a once-over. > The following work has been done: > ??? link against system libs, not built-in copies > ??? build with modular X > ??? remove the shell wrapper that was hiding build errors from rpm > ??? reorder build logic to fix those errors > ??? hal/pam/udev logic so colorimeters do not need root access > > The result is IMHO good enough to be merged. However, since this > software has suffered from a secluded life due to the aforementioned > problems, it would probably be a good idea if more clueful people than > me checked the following points: > > ??? go over the build logs, ???check if the warnings are really harmless and > fix the code if needed (where is the list of people that wanted to do > this kind of work a few months ago?) > http://nim.fedorapeople.org/argyllcms/build.log > I doubt argyllcms was ever built with a modern gcc with all the fancy > options we use and for all the architectures we target > > ??? check if I got the hal/pam/udev logic right, push bits upstream if > needed (I didn't find two Fedora packages that did it the same way, all > I can say the way I did it works on my system) I've got a Optix XR instrument which I can test the udev bits with. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
