El mié, 12-09-2012 a las 12:33 +0200, Damian Ivanov escribió: > Hi, > > > My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of > unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long > additionally maintains > also unity on Arch Linux. We use for building the packages the open > build service https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=GNOME > %3AAyatana > It actually builds install-able and usable packages for Fedora and > openSUSE. This week we'll give an official announcement that unity > works on openSUSE and will make a live CD available based on openSUSE > with unity. We would also like to see Mageia running unity, but this > would not be done by us ( I am mainly working on openSUSE, Xiao-Long > is working on Fedora and openSUSE). But I offer my help, if you want > to do it also with obs on GNOME:Ayatana. At the moment the structure > of a package is as follows: > > > => Package > ===> package.tar.gz > ===> %name-Fedora_17.spec > ======> Fedora-123.patch > ======> Fedora-456.patch > > > ===> %name.spec (could be also %name-openSUSE_%version.spec) > ======> openSUSE-abc.patch > ======> openSUSE-def.patch > > > ===> PKGBUILD (for Arch Linux builds, at the moment you won't see lots > of them, Xiao-Long is converting his arch packages from aur to go to > OBS at the moment) > ======> Arch-xyz.patch > > > There are users of Mageia who would love to see it in > Mageia: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=130 > > It would't need to be done that much to get it working on Mageia. The > spec files for openSUSE and Fedora are quite similar and based on each > other. > I experimented with the Mandriva backend to package myself unity for > Mandriva and/or Mageia too, but the package naming are way different > from the ones of SUSE and Fedora which are quite similar. It would > need to be done for every package in GNOME:Ayatana to copy a spec file > from suse or fedora as %name-Mageia_%Mageia_ver.spec and adjust the > BuildRequires, Requires and the naming. Additionally it would be > needed for packages that are only packaged with patches to add the > Mageia sources and add the Mageia Patches to apply. > > > At the moment it is worked on the Mageia OBS backend, when it is > fixed, is there someone here interested in adjusting the spec files to > Mageia? > > > Best regards, > Damian Ivanov
If I don't misremember, unity needs some unofficial patches to be applied to gtk+/glib and other libs, how have you worked with that problem? Thanks for the info :)
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