@packagers: please check that your packages are properly listed in the comps files

[Conrad Meyer]

Quoth Thorsten Leemhuis:
> On 15.09.2008 00:05, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > Quoth Thorsten Leemhuis:
> >> == nonfree ==
> > ...
> >> konrad_[AT]_tylerc.org | jad | RPM jad not found in comps.xml for 
> > nonfree-devel
> >> konrad_[AT]_tylerc.org | jad | RPM jad not found in comps.xml for 
> > nonfree-F-8
> >> konrad_[AT]_tylerc.org | jad | RPM jad not found in comps.xml for 
> > nonfree-F-9
> >> konrad_[AT]_tylerc.org | unrar | RPM unrar not found in comps.xml for 
> > nonfree-devel
> >> konrad_[AT]_tylerc.org | unrar | RPM unrar not found in comps.xml for 
> > nonfree-F-8
> >> konrad_[AT]_tylerc.org | unrar | RPM unrar not found in comps.xml for 
> > nonfree-F-9
> > ...
> >> == End ==
> >>
> >> The usual warning for such script-created lists applies of course: there 
> > might
> >> be some false positives in this list. 
> >>
> >> One more note: yes, people care if packages are listed in comps.xml; take 
> > for
> >> example http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2069
> >>
> >> It'll also important for spin creation later, so please add you packages 
to 
> > the
> >> comps files in CVS. tia!
> > 
> > unrar and jad are both command line programs that don't really make sense 
to 
> > list in comps.
> 
> We had those discussions in Fedora-land a year or two ago :-/ The 
> agreement was to list everything -- including command-line apps and libs 
> that get tracked as deps from other packages normally.
> 
> I'd thius say we should handle it in RPM Fusion the same way. And 
> especially unrar is a good example for why even command-line apps should 
> be in comps: yes, it's a command-line app, but it iirc can be used by 
> file-roller or other archiver frontends. Some users might want to 
> install it from anaconda -- those should be able to find it, which only 
> works if you go and add it.
> 
> And note that we even have a group that's called "Miscellaneous command 
> line tools" where it really suits well. I'd even would mark it as 
> "default" to make sure everybody that selects this group gets unrar.
> 
> Also the checker script is much easier to handle if everything is in 
> comps.xml. Sure, I could add a whitelist to it, but adding those 
> packages once to comps.xml is just as easy ;-)
> 
> CU
> knurd

Ah, the wiki page on comps.xml must be out of date. I'll add it then.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>