On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:02, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > On 04/29/2014 10:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > On 2014-04-30 06:57, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> The RC for el7 specifically omits packages that have drawn interest in > >> the past. A few examples of such packages would be kmail and pidgin. > >> > >> kmail is ordinarily part of the kde-pim suite, but is stripped from the > >> final build via some 'rm' handiwork in the spec. Pidgin is omitted from > >> the build via a check to see if the build host is rhel. The libs are > >> used and included, but the binary is no longer produced. > > > > In the pidgin case is libpurple the main thing that gets used in RHEL? > > If so but it's under the 'pidgin' namespace then maybe a -bin package > > could be provided via EPEL or some other means. Alternatively it might > > make sense to file a BZ to have it moved under a different package name > > altogether? > > > Yes, libpurple seems to be the main thing needed/wanted. Important bits > from the spec appear to be -> > > %if 0%{?rhel} >= 7 > %global build_only_libs 1 > %global api_docs 0 > %endif > > > %if %{build_only_libs} > SWITCHES="$SWITCHES --disable-consoleui --disable-gtkui" > %endif > > > %if ! %{build_only_libs} > desktop-file-install --vendor pidgin --delete-original \ > --add-category X-Red-Hat-Base \ > --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications \ > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/pidgin.desktop > %endif > [snip - about kmail] > > I guess I have two specific questions for this. > > 1. Can epel track and provide the same source versions of packages that > RH provides for RHEL? > 2. Is the demand worth the effort?
I'd be interested in the pidgin package. However, current package in RHEL7 disables Gadu-gadu support in libpurple, which is a deal-breaker for me. I filed a bug[1] about it, but if it's not fixed, I'll be rolling my own packages anyway. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064053 Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
