On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Doing something quite unprecedented: taking a thread frm hackers-il to
> linux-il, as it is getting too technical ;-)
>
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >
> > Included below is an RPM Spec for building a collection of fortune files.
> > It is specific to my collection, but hopefully can be customized to other
> > sources with relative ease.
> >
> > I plan to use it as the basis for my fortune2rpm hack, which I have some
> > great plans for.
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
> > #######################################
> > # Base Macros which need to be set
> > %define packageprefix fortune-mod-fortunes
> > %define packagebase shlomif
> > %define archivebase fortunes-shlomif
> > %define version 0.2.2
> > %define fortunefilesprefix shlomif-
> >
> > # Derived Macros
> > %define name %{packageprefix}-%{packagebase}
> > %define archivewithver %{archivebase}-%{version}
> > %define archivefull %{archivewithver}.tar.gz
>
> This appears to be slightly over-complecated. consider ranamin the tarball
> or the package so they'll havethe same name.
>
Sorry, can't do. I want the package to be under fortune-mod-fortunes and I
cannot depend on other packages to follow this naming scheme. The RPM
is supposed to be a base for other fortune collections.
> Another note: you package has /usr and /usr/share hardwired . One thing
> you should consider paramterising is the pathes insidethe package:
>
> %define fortunedatadir %{_altdatadir}/games/fortune
>
> (I probably got the alias of /usr/share wrong, see /usr/lib/rpm/macros)
>
> even though nobody needs to put the fortune files elsewhere on a decent
> linux system, youcan never know when can this come in handy.
>
OK. Will be done.
> > Name: %{name}
> > Version: %{version}
> > Release: 6
> > Copyright: Free to use but restricted
>
> Hmm... what restrictions? Do you have a LICENSE file there? Maybe mention
> that in the Licene header?
>
I don't have a license file. However, some of the quotations are
copyrighted text, so I can't label them as fully open-source.
> > Group: Toys
>
> Do you want to add a 'Packager:' header here?
>
> I would advise against this. Add it to your rpmmacros.
>
> >
> > Source: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/humour/fortunes/%{archivefull}
> > BuildArch: noarch
> > Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
> > URL: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/humour/fortunes/
> > Serial: 1
> > Requires: fortune-mod
> > Summary: Shlomi Fish' Collection of Fortune Cookies
>
> IMHO you should make that:
>
> Fortune cookies collection by Shlomi Fish
>
> It is shorter, and puts the important thing (functionally) first
>
>
It is not shorter - it is the same length. But whatever - I can rename it
to that.
>
> > %description
> > This package contains several collections of fortune cookies by Shlomi Fish.
> > Namely, a collection of his own quotes, some of his favourites from various
>sources; a collectionof excerpts from the T.V. Show Friends; the Rules of Open
>
> That's a line longer than 80 chars . Keep lines shrter than 80 chars and
> seperate paragraphs with an empty lines.
>
OK.
> > Source Programming, and a collection of reasons why there is no iglu cabal.
> >
> >
> > %prep
> > %setup -n %{archivewithver}
> >
> >
> > %build
> >
> > myprefix="%{fortunefilesprefix}"
> > rm -f *.dat
> > ls | grep -v "\\." | grep -v "[A-Z]" | \
> > ( while read T ; do \
> > mv "$T" "${myprefix}$T" ; \
> > /usr/sbin/strfile "${myprefix}$T" "${myprefix}$T.dat" ; \
>
> Does you packge BuildRequire-s /usr/sbin/strfile ? (from which package is
> it, anyway?)
>
It's from the package fortune-mod. I'll add it to the BuildRequire.
> > done )
> >
> > %install
> >
> > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> > for dir in usr usr/share usr/share/games usr/share/games/fortunes ; do
> > mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/$dir
> > done
> > # This will only work in bash and friends.
>
> The script is run with /bin/sh . This is bash on most linux systems,but
> can be ash ;-)
>
OK, I'll fix it to some sed monstrosity.
> use 'mkdir -p'
>
> simply 'mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/share/games/fortunes
>
OK.
> > for I in *.dat ; do
> > cp $I ${I%%.dat} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/games/fortunes
> > done
> >
> > %post
> >
> > %postun
>
> You don't have to put an empty %post and %postun . Simply remove those
>
Ack.
> >
> >
> > %files
> > %defattr(-,root,root)
> > /usr/share/games/fortunes/*
>
> No docs at all, not even a README?
>
> in the prep:
>
> cat <<EOF >README
> This package contains BLABLABLA
> EOF
>
>
> in %files
> $doc README
>
OK, I'll see what I can do about it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> >
> > %clean
> > rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> >
> > %changelog
> > * Fri May 31 2002 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.2.2-2
> > - Added macros all over the place
> >
> > * Thu May 30 2002 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0.2.2-1
> > - first release - testing.
>
> Good to see that this part has not been neglected
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
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> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
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