[GRASSLIST:311] Re: Source packages

[Buchan Milne]

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Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:03:02PM -0400, R. Sean Fulton wrote:
>
>>Is there a convention for naming GRASS source packages? I ask because
>>I've been playing with building RPMS and DarwinPorts packages which
>>assume the source package name and the extracted directory name will
>>be the same. (e.g. they expect grass-5.0.2_src.tar.gz to extract to
>>'grass-5.0.2_src/' but it extracts to 'grass5.0.2/')
>>
>>That's an oversimplification, there are work-arounds but there seems
>>to be a convention of APPNAME-VERION for the source directory.
>
>
> Mea culpa - the *GRASS* naming "convention" was a sort of evolving
> over the years.
>
>
>>Has this issue ever come up? Are the maintainers aware of it? Do you
>>think anyone cares?
>
>
> Not yet :-) But I see no problem to update the scripts to follow
> a well known naming convention. Let me know what's common and
> I'll update the cronjobs.
>


%{name}-%version}.tar.gz containing %{name}-%{version}/ is customary,
for about 90% of the packages I have made, then some have
%{name}-%{version}_src.tar.gz containing %{name}-%version}/ .

Since source is typically the standard way of distribution, and there is
no such thing as a generic binary, IMHO, the _src suffix to the version
is useless.

The big thing though is that the directory name should be
%{name}-%{version}, to avoid having all RPM packagers having to add "-n
%{name}%{version}" or "-n %{name}_%{version}" or similar to %setup.

Most important thing is to be consistent though ... otherwise we keep
having to make patches like this for no reason:

http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/contrib-SPECS/grass/grass.spec.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8

- -%setup -q
+%setup -q -n %{name}%{version}

>
>>It's certainly nothing critical, I'm just curious.
>
> No problem. If things can be made better, we should improve them.

It's been mentioned before (so 5.0.0 was right), so chances are that the
actual naming of the directory in a release is not done by a script, but
should be ...

Regards,
Buchan

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