[Bug 2978] Review request: skype - Skype Messaging and Telephony Client

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2978

--- Comment #5 from Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> 2013-10-03 15:37:35 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> Since installing skype is a bit of a pain, you could consider doing a package
> which will download and install it for the user,
> 
> You could use auto-downloader for the download. And then pkexec to do the
> rpm -i of the rpm from skype.
> 
> This way people could still just do yum install skype ...
> 
> See the usbview package of an example of using pxexec, and see the vavoom
> package for an example of using autodl.

Thanks, I will try; but I'm not sure Skype leaves the tarballs/packages in
place on the servers when a new version comes out and this would need to be
sorted out.

Is an example of using autodl with tarballs also available?

> You could then make this a package with the necessary extra requires (not sure
> if the requires of the skype rpm are complete), and make it ExclusiveArch i686
> and x86_64.

No, package requirements are missing entirely in Skype's official package;
there are no dependencies at all.

> You should then also drop in a /etc/profile.d file with the following in there:
> 
> alias skype='PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype'
>
> Otherwise audio won't work in F20+, the latter alone is worth doing a wrapper
> package like this.

Thanks for the hint, I will do. Does it make any harm on lower Fedora or RHEL
distributions?

I was also planning to submit the purple-skype plugin after the Skype review;
do you think that could use that as the main "wrapper" package? Spec file and
source rpm here:

Spec URL: http://slaanesh.fedorapeople.org/purple-skype.spec

The x86_64 build runs fine with an installed i686 package.

I will update the Review Request when I will have something more to share;
thanks everybody for inputs.

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