On 5/17/20 1:13 PM, Edmond Orignac wrote:
>
> There used to be also packages on COPR for Fedora and
> RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux built from David Cantrell's SPEC file.
> But recently, the repository was empty, indicating that the build had
> failed. Now, it has disappeared from COPR.
>

:(

> I have tried to build CDE 2.3.2 from that SPEC file. Although the
> build succeeds, the installation in BUILDROOT fails. The reason is
> that InstallCDE instead of installing the desktop under the
> BUILDROOT/{usr,etc,var} directories attempts to install it under
> /usr,/etc,/var as if no options had been passed.
>

I added a "-destdir" option to installCDE some time ago... That should
work.  Of course, when the autotools branch is "done" that kind of thing
will be supported normally (ie: via $DESTDIR or configure options).

-jon

> Trying to create a tar file of the desktop also fails. I don't know if
> it is a shell issue (say the rpmbuild command uses /bin/bash instead
> of /bin/ksh to run installCDE) or if there is an issue in the script
> itself. I could send the log if necessary.
>
> Previously, it was possible to create a RPM from the same SPEC file
> also for PCLinuxOS.
>
> If the issue with installCDE is solved, it should be reasonably
> feasible to adapt the SPEC file of David Cantrell to other RPM based
> Linux distros such as OpenSuse, AltLinux or Mageia. The problem would
> be to get the generated RPMs accepted in their official repositories
> or at least in repositories indexed by repology.
>
>
> Le 16/05/2020 à 14:55, Нина Диденко a écrit :
>> Hi.
>>
>> By looking at https://repology.org/project/cdesktopenv/versions I see
>> that CDE is currently only packaged for Arch Linux, FreeBSD and NixOS
>> operating systems.
>>
>> Are there are plans for adding CDE to other systems like Debian?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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