Re: [Denemo-devel] Problems with 0.8.0 tarball when generating Fedora RPM files

[Jeremiah Benham]

Ok. I will look into all this and get back with you.

Jeremiah



On Jan 9, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Roy Rankin <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have had several issues in generating clean (ie passes rpmlint)  
> Fedora RPM files for the 0.8.0 distribution tarball.
>
> The first issue is the most important. As of 0.8.0 Denemo is linked  
> using the -rpath flag. This is not permitted in Fedora.
>
> Why is the -rpath flag being used? What are the alternatives.
>
> Two issues concern the actions tree.
>
> 1> There are backup copies (ie ending in ~) files in this tree. As  
> they are not in git this is probably a production issue with the  
> tarball. Note that Fedora requires packages to be based on the  
> released version of the tarball from the upstream site where such a  
> file exists.
>
> 2> In the current git version, a problem involves the install-data- 
> hook section of the Makefile. It does a "chmod -R 755 ${DESTDIR}/$ 
> (datadir)/${PACKAGE}/actions" command. This means the exec bits are  
> set for the text XML files. Text files with the exec bits set and  
> not starting with a shebang (#!) is considered an error.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Roy Rankin
>
>
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