[companion-discuss] Re: spec files for building 'Solaris CUPS Print Suite' ...

[Paul Cunningham]

Laca,

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> 
> Wow, this is great stuff!
> 
> Some questions/comments:
> 
> - I noticed that you build everything with gcc, is there a reason they
>   need to be build with gcc or is that just the way the CCD has always
>   been built?  In JDS, we build everything with Sun Studio.

Using gcc was the way the freeware-gate (CCD) always did it. I think 
that was mainly because not all packages would build out-of-the box with 
Sun Studio so that made tracking updates easier and quicker.
I just continued that, in my spec files, because the 'Sun Studio' I have 
access to is rather out of date (and fixing compile problems is not that 
interesting :-) ).

> - The patch for pkgbuild basically disables checking for unpackaged
>   files.  If you really want to do that, you can do it using:
> 
>    %define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0

I knew there had to be someway of doing it, but I couldn't work it out 
so I patched it .

> 
>   But it's not a good idea to do so.  It's better to use rm and rmdir
>   commands in %install to delete the files and directories you don't
>   want to include in the packages.

The reason I did it, is because when building CUPS pkgbuild says there 
is a load of stuff installed that hasn't been packaged even though it 
has been. I tracked that down to pkgbuild not coping with non normalized 
paths (if I remember correctly). I raised a bug on pkgbuild for it.
So yes I agree it's not a good idea but it was my work-around at the 
time. I should have said why I patched it in the README (I forgot, sorry).

I'm working on splitting up the CUPS package up now into sub-packages 
(in my spare time) and will be posting it to Norm for comment soon.

Paul

> 
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:21 +0100, Paul Cunningham wrote:
> 
>>I have resent this because the first time (yesterday) it was blocked by 
>>the alias and not released due to the size of the attachment. I have 
>>reduced the attachment size by removing all the unnecessary bits and 
>>attached that now. Please read on .......
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>Paul Cunningham wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Attached are my first attempts at creating a set of gnome style spec 
>>>files for building the opensource packages that make up the "Solaris 
>>>CUPS Print Suite". The packages they build are direct replacements for 
>>>the packages that are on (or were on) the Companion CD (CCD) - whoops 
>>>it's a DVD now.
>>>
>>>These packages are:
>>>  SFWcups       SFWespgs     SFWfltk    SFWgutenprint  SFWpnm2ppa
>>>  SFWcupsprint  SFWffilters  SFWfppds   SFWhpijs       SFWxpp
>>>where package SFWcupsprint is a dummy package that pulls all the others 
>>>together (via dependencies).
>>>
>>>I have briefly tested them on sparc, but I only have one network 
>>>printer, and as such they all work together okay.
>>>
>>>The attached tarball contains the spec files, patches, include files and 
>>>a Makefile. I have only built them on Solaris 10 sparc but they should 
>>>hopefully work okay on x86 and Solaris nv. At the time of creating the 
>>>spec files they used the latest stable version of the packages (except 
>>>gutenprint which is rc3).
>>>
>>>The next step is to break down the CUPS package into sub-packages in the 
>>>way that Norm (Solaris Print Group) has suggested (so that it works 
>>>along side the Solaris Print System) .....
>>>
>>>Norm wrote:
>>> > I was thinking about breaking down the packaging into something along
>>> > the lines of
>>> >    SFWcups-libs
>>> >    SFWcups-spooler
>>> >    SFWcups-commands
>>> >    SFWcups-filters
>>>
>>>I hope these are useful to someone, let me know. If I have missed any 
>>>packages that should be in the suite let me know. Also if you find any 
>>>problem with the resultant packages also let me know.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Paul
>>>-- 
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Paul Cunningham