On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 06:06 -0400, Pranav Kant wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to package STLPlus > (sourceforge.net/projects/stlplus/files/stlplus3/) library for fedora. > There are few doubts I have in mind regarding packaging it. > > 1. The library is dependent on another project viz. > 'makefiles' (http://sourceforge.net/projects/stlplus/files/makefiles/). This > project is also distributed in a separate tar ball. This project only > contains few helper files that are included by the STLPlus library's makefile > (Hence, STLPlus requires this package for build only). Other projects can > also make use of this project to write their makefiles quickly. I think > makefiles project is more generic and not quite specific to STLPlus, hence > must be packaged separately. Is it right to package it separately ? Though I > understand that 'makefiles' name is too general and should be renamed to > something else may be ?
"makefiles" should be packaged separately, yes. There's nothing in the guidelines that stops you from using "makefiles" as the name. It doesn't conflict with any other package. It'd be a good idea to see what name other distributions use, but I think you should be able to use "makefiles" without any trouble. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Package_Naming_and_Versioning_Guidelines > > 2. Re. Location of 'makefiles' project : Since, it only contains few > helper files, I am wondering what would be the best location for > installing these files ? datadir ? libdir ? datadir seems to fit best to me. libdir is reserved for object libraries and some executables according to the FHS: > /usr/lib > Object libraries, including dynamic libraries, plus some > executables which usually are not invoked directly. More complicated > programs may have > whole subdirectories there. -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
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