Fred Ollinger wrote:
I don't know where this is at, but I heard that people wanted this.
My fault. Here's a quick status update: OpenOffice 4 was accepted as a "Feature" for Fedora 19, but the new OpenOffice 4 schedule puts the tentative release date after the tentative Fedora 19 release date (June), and we don't have anything really ready for testing (in terms of new code, now still in branches, or packaging); and Fedora 19 testing begins this week.
So OpenOffice cannot be a "feature" for Fedora 19 any longer, but this only means that it won't be part of the release notes and that it won't be a stopper for the Fedora 19 release. This would have made sense until our schedule was to release in March-April, but no longer now.
It is still possible that official OpenOffice packages for Fedora 19 are available on the same day Fedora 19 (or OpenOffice 4) is released; this is independent of being a "feature", so nothing is lost here. Actually, if Fedora 19 for some other reason is delayed and we manage to have OpenOffice 4 ready for the "Features 100% Complete" deadline (currently May 7th, probably still too early) we can even ask to go back as a "Feature".
So far, I have a spec file for dmake. I need to fix a few errors and warnings, but it does make an rpm which works.
This is fantastic news! Yes, indeed packaging dmake is a prerequisite for properly packaging OpenOffice. And we can't package dmake as part of the OpenOffice project for licensing reasons, so I'll spare you details, but we surely need it.
I'm keeping my work here: https://github.com/fredollinger/aooo-fedora-rawhide Next move is an rpm for esp. Then I'll move on to aooo.
Sounds like an excellent plan. We should talk more, offlist or onlist. But I'll make sure to test your dmake packages on a Rawhide virtual machine and report back. And let's keep the door open, since I suspect that once there is something to play with other people will join.
When we come to packaging OpenOffice, things get more interesting and quite harder: for example, the Environment Modules theoretically allow the best conflict handling in our case... but I haven't seen them working yet, and questions on the Fedora lists remained unanswered, so there's plenty of fun we can still have in discovering them.
If this is pointless, please don't let me know. I want to learn to build rpms, etc.
It is not pointless at all.
If there's something else that I can do which is just as easy, but more pressing, please let me know.
As you will have seen while building, the Fedora 19 packaging requires other fixes and modernizations (I had to apply a modified version of a patch by you I found in Bugzilla, for example; or to tweak the handling of our configuration options; and in the end we'll probably update HSQLDB, and so on...) that are quite beneficial in the long run. So if we get it done nicely, it's good progress for the project as a whole and not for the Fedora users only.
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