Re: [Denemo-devel] Help Needed

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:59:59AM +0100, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
 
> The package maintainer has to make sure though that these dependencies are 
> seen by the package manager. In case the standard distro repository doesn't 
> include them, but are built in some other OBS repo, he should probably create 
> a link to the needed package which effectively creates a copy in his own 
> project.
> I had to do this for lilypond for a while pre oS-12.2 IIRC, because openSUSE 
> didn't ship it as 
> part of the main distro, only via the multimedia:apps project on OBS.
> 
> I see Jeremiah has branched denemo and tries to build for Fedora:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jjbenham:branches:home:edogawa/denemo

It says that the fedora build is a success but I don't see the download page to 
test it. How do I send you a patch. I will ubuntu and debian next.

Jeremiah

> 
> I haven't tried to do other distro builds myself yet, but i believe that 
> there's a set of rpm macros to use for adjusting to different distros 
> (install 
> locations, different dependency names etc.) while keeping the build 
> instructions in one .spec file, but this is well documented in the OBS wiki, 
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_cross_distribution_howto
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Edgar
> > 
> > 
> > > If so that is probably a better way to go for normal users. I used it 
> > > once before but I could not figure out how to meet all of denemo 
> > > dependencies in the OpenBuild system. Now it seems some of the work has 
> > > been done for us. 
> > > 
> > > The only advantage 
> > 
> > Well, another advantage is that the user does not need root permissions
> > to install, and so does not need to be so trusting - the version in the
> > Debian repository is signed and hopefully the builder has kept an eye on
> > the security of the build machine and so on. But perhaps this is only of
> > interest to a paranoid few :)
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
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