[Duplicity-talk] Re: Need RPM Expert

[Marcin Zajaczkowski]

On 2008-12-27 21:14, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Marcin,
>
> Thanks for the help!  That fixed it.

I'm glad I could help.

> I still find RPM about as clear as mud.  One of these days I'll warp my
> mind around it and all the exceptions, but for now, it works and if I'm
> lucky it'll be years before I have to make changes again.

I think you exaggerate a little bit ;).
After that post some young and unexperienced Duplicity users could make 
a wrong opinion that Fedora, SUSE, PLD and other rpm-based Linux 
distribution are bad, ugly and very not user friendly.

Many years ago there were some problems with package administration and 
update, but a duet rpm + yum make it very easy, fast and reliable for an 
end user. In my opinion it's comparable [1] to deb + apt-get which 
offers many useful features.

[1] - I don't know apt + apt-get in details and because of that I don't 
say that rpm + yum is better for sure.

Regarding to packaging I've been making packages for Fedora for years 
and indeed it wasn't very easy to start, but I had found a great manual 
by Hoppke [2]. It's a little bit outdated and it's in Polish, but you 
could try to use Google Translator for that page [3] (there is some 
problem with translating the whole page, but for specified section it 
works "fine"). There is also a HOWTO by Fedora people [4] which could be 
useful.

So, don't be afraid of RPM. It's not so scary. And in case of problems 
you can always ask for a help.


[2] - 
http://repo.dobremiasto.net/articles/kurs_budowania_pakietow_rpm?longpage
[3] - 
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Frepo.dobremiasto.net%2Farticles%2Fkurs_budowania_pakietow_rpm%3Flongpage&sl=pl&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
[4] - 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo


Regards
Marcin



> Marcin Zajaczkowski wrote:
(...)
> > > RPM build errors:
> > >     Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> > >    /usr/share/locale/io/LC_MESSAGES/duplicity.mo
> > .mo files (probably in that version you have only that one .mo file)
> > weren't marked as files which should be packaged, but an installer (in
> > make install) copied it to the destination folder anyway.
> >
> > I've never make a package for localized Python application, but probably
> > it's similar to making a package for C/C++ localized application. If you
> > have already .mo files (it seems you have) then standard Fedora approach
> > with %find_lang macro should be enough:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Handling_Locale_Files
> >
> > In case of further problems please drop me a SPEC + current tar.gz,
> > maybe I could do something more.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Marcin