Re: Introduction
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM, John Arntz <jsarntz(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Greetings!
Welcome!
My name is John S. Arntz I just signed up for this list and would
like to introduce myself. I have used Fedora since Fedora 5 and love the packages that
RPMFusion offers (Before RPMFusion I used FreshRPMs). I'm not a programmer, but I know
enough to make a basic package. I plan to make my first package submission to Bugzilla
soon, fceux, an NES Emulator based on FCE Ultra. My first question, though, where would be
a good place to host the .spec and .srpm files? I don't have a website anwhere.
I'm aware of sites like rapidshare, megaupload, qshare, and mediafire. But I'm not
sure if those would be the best places to host the files. Once I am able to find a place
to post them, I will take the plunge and file my submission for review.
I know these, but AFAIK they only use Italian language:
http://it.altervista.org/
http://xoom.virgilio.it/
Also, the source contains gfceux which is a GTK Glade frontend based
on GFCE Ultra. How should I handle packaging this? Should I make them two separate
packages and submissions, since they are actually two builds included in
the same tarball and have to be built separately, or as a sub-package of fceux? The
.spec files that I have made are based upon fce-ultra and gfce-ultra's .spec files so
as they exist now, I have them as two unique packages. You feedback is greatly
appreciated.
I disagree with Hans. I would make two separate packages. I still
don't know why upstream put them in the same tarball. They are
different programs in every aspect: one is made in C and the other in
python, they have different build systems and so on. There is no
correlation between the two. I did ask upstream some time ago about
releasing different tarball: one for fceux and the other for gceux.
They told me they would have done so, but it seems they forgot. I
think it is time someone else nag them :)
I uploaded here the two wips SRPMs I did a long time ago. Feel free to
use what you need.
http://www.webalice.it/musuruan/RPMS/wips/gfceux-2.1.0a-1.fc10.src.rpm
http://www.webalice.it/musuruan/RPMS/wips/fceux-2.1.0a-1.fc10.src.rpm
Bye,
Andrea.