On 24/04/06, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mail to the list arrives even from non-members, after I moderate it > through. And the latency is not worse than writing to myself. >
> Have you taken an actual look at the current spec file from AUCTeX > itself in CVS or the latest "SuSE" src RPM package? It reportedly > works with Fedora, too. > I looked at the spec file included in the tarball, yes - and mostly just used what was in there, tweaking what was needed to work for fedora. > I have glanced through the Fedora Extras spec file, since we don't do > a too convincing job of putting our "Advice for package providers" in > the AUCTeX documentation to work in our own spec file. However, it > seems to me like Fedora's own spec file does an even worse job even > after your fixes. And you are missing out on providing a lot of > features that are expected to be available on Fedora when > preview-latex (or the LaTeX part of it) is installed (for the sake of > LyX et al), and on obsoletions and conflicts (such as a preexisting > preview package). And the package will conflict with teTeX 3.0 which > has its own preview.sty. OK, thanks for the pointers on the conflicts. Could you elaborate on what functionality we're not exposing though? Regarding the preview.sty shipped with tetex 3.0 - what do you recommend is the best approach here - is the version shipped with auctex considered the more up to date? One thing I did notice is that the spec file from the tarball didn't call texhash on installation such that preview wouldn't work - it would be well worth adding that (if it hasn't been already). > > So before you invest further work into this, you might want to > consider looking at the existing spec file in development (or the SuSE > source RPM we provide on AUCTeX's download area which has a slightly > more up to date specfile than is present in the last released > tarball), and also the guidelines for packaging AUCTeX we put together > in its documentation, since we already _have_ invested time and work > and thought in that matter and there is little point in not making use > of it. > Will do - thanks for the pointer. Best wishes, Jonathan _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
