On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:59:59AM +0100, Edgar Aichinger wrote: > The package maintainer has to make sure though that these dependencies are > seen by the package manager. In case the standard distro repository doesn't > include them, but are built in some other OBS repo, he should probably create > a link to the needed package which effectively creates a copy in his own > project. > I had to do this for lilypond for a while pre oS-12.2 IIRC, because openSUSE > didn't ship it as > part of the main distro, only via the multimedia:apps project on OBS. > > I see Jeremiah has branched denemo and tries to build for Fedora: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jjbenham:branches:home:edogawa/denemo
It says that the fedora build is a success but I don't see the download page to test it. How do I send you a patch. I will ubuntu and debian next. Jeremiah > > I haven't tried to do other distro builds myself yet, but i believe that > there's a set of rpm macros to use for adjusting to different distros > (install > locations, different dependency names etc.) while keeping the build > instructions in one .spec file, but this is well documented in the OBS wiki, > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_cross_distribution_howto > > Hope that helps, > > Edgar > > > > > > > If so that is probably a better way to go for normal users. I used it > > > once before but I could not figure out how to meet all of denemo > > > dependencies in the OpenBuild system. Now it seems some of the work has > > > been done for us. > > > > > > The only advantage > > > > Well, another advantage is that the user does not need root permissions > > to install, and so does not need to be so trusting - the version in the > > Debian repository is signed and hopefully the builder has kept an eye on > > the security of the build machine and so on. But perhaps this is only of > > interest to a paranoid few :) > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Denemo-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Denemo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
