[bt-devel] BibleTime 1.6.3a released (was: Re: Bibletime 1.6.3 for FreeBSD)

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi,
here's the report I received. It was about Fedora packaging, not BSD.

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I'm planning to package and get bibletime into Fedora repository. All
the (build) dependencies are now in place,and I've built the source
rpm. However, while running rpmlint (a rpm checker) on the resulting
binary, it produces the warnings below;
>>
W: bibletime dangling-relative-symlink
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/bibletime/handbook/common ../../common
W: bibletime dangling-relative-symlink
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/bibletime/howto/common ../../common
<<

And on looking at the Makefile (from the tarball), I can see under
~/docs/{handbook,howto}/, in the install section, this is sth like "ln
-sf ../../common
$(DESTDIR)$(kde_htmldir)/en/bibletime/handbook/common;\" . I'm not
very sure where/which ../../common its referring to, and there is no
other subdirectory "common" under
$(DESTDIR)$(kde_htmldir)/en/bibletime in the built binary. I would
appreciate it if you can provide some explanation on this issue.
The srpm and spec file are on ftp://czar.eas.yorku.ca/pub/bibletime/
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Joachim

> Btw, didn`t the relative links approach work well? I mean that
> BibleTime was available for BSD as well. Was the handbook broken
> there?
>
> mg
>
> am Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2007 um 21:31 schrieben Sie:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got a report, I think from a BSD packager, which said, that the links
> > should link to an absoolute path to make the install work.
> > So I changed that.
> >
> > The link is supposed to link to the common files of KDE, en/common is
> > included in KDE. But as you can see the file of KDE is not available in a
> > subdir which contains the whole RPM file structure.
> >
> > So
> > /var/tmp/bibletime-1.6.3a-build/opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/common
> > is not available also /opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/common would be,
> > because it's a KDE part.
> >
> > I'm not sure about this and how to fix that.
> > The current solution doesn't seem to be the best solution in all
> > environments. Does somebody has a suggestion how this could be fixed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joachim
> >
> >>       I am trying to build RPM packages of 1.6.3a, but it appears that
> >> it still has a problem.  The program builds, but RPM fails to package it
> >> as a result of the following errors (on SuSE 10.2 in this case):
> >>
> >> ERROR: link target doesn't exist (neither in build root nor in installed
> >> system):
> >>   /opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/bibletime/howto/common ->
> >> /var/tmp/bibletime-1.6.3a-build/opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/common Add
> >> the package providing the target to neededforbuild and Requires ERROR:
> >> link target doesn't exist (neither in build root nor in installed
> >> system): /opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/bibletime/handbook/common ->
> >> /var/tmp/bibletime-1.6.3a-build/opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/common Add
> >> the package providing the target to neededforbuild and Requires error:
> >> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42345 (%install)
> >>
> >>
> >> RPM build errors:
> >>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42345 (%install)
> >>
> >>       It would appear that this issue is related to the one fixed
> >> between 1.6.3 and 1.6.3a, because it's referencing the same path.
> >>
> >> -Jeremy Erickson
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 4:06 pm, Martin Gruner wrote:
> >> > Hi Thomas and all,
> >> >
> >> > thanks to Joachim's very quick reaction I could just release BibleTime
> >> > 1.6.3a. It only fixes the Makefile problems you reported. Please test
> >> > and let us know if it works ok.
> >> >
> >> > God bless,
> >> >
> >> > mg
> >> >
> >> > Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 schrieb Thomas Abthorpe:
> >> > > Hello again!
> >> > >
> >> > > I discovered the issue
> >> > >
> >> > > docs/handbook/unicode/Makefile  reads
> >> > >
> >> > > install-data-local:
> >> > >         mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(kde_htmldir)en/bibletime/handbook/;
> >> > >         chmod -R a+r+X  $(DESTDIR)$(kde_htmldir)en/bibletime;
> >> > >
> >> > > it should read
> >> > >
> >> > >         mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(kde_htmldir)/en/bibletime/handbook/;
> >> > >         chmod -R a+r+X  $(DESTDIR)$(kde_htmldir)/en/bibletime;
> >> > >
> >> > > Thank you again for your time and attention to this matter.
> >> > >
> >> > > Yours in Christ
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Thomas
> >> > >
> >> > >
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