[sword-devel] RPM package improvements

Daniel Glassey sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 22 May 2002 19:19:09 +0100


fwiw for debian I have them in /usr/share/man/man3

Regards,
Daniel

On 22 May 2002 at 13:54, Stuart D. Gathman sent forth the message:

> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Gruner wrote:
> 
> > > As was mentioned, they are only installed with the devel package.  The
> > > question was: when the devel package *is* installed, should the man pages
> > > go in the /usr/share/doc/sword-devel-1.5.3 directory, where they are out of
> > > the way but harder to consult, or in the /usr/share/man/man3 directory.
> > 
> > Hm. I am not convinced of the need for a dev package though. Whoever wants to 
> > develop should use (anonymous) cvs. There is probably only need for a 
> > well-written sword rpm that users could install (just the lib), or what do 
> > you think?
> 
> The sword-devel package is not for sword developers.  It is for developers
> who are *using* the sword package in their own project.  For example,
> GnomeSword and BibleTime developers.  
> 
> > Atm BibleTime rpms include a static sword in the binary. We have to supply 
> > additional files (like locales) as well, which can conflict if users already 
> > have a sword rpm installed. Now if a good sword rpm exists, we can probably 
> > switch over to requiring that one and have sword dynamic. I think this would 
> > be the cleaner and more obvious solution. 
> 
> The gnomesword RPM uses and depends on the sword RPM.  The sword-devel
> RPM must be installed in order to compile the gnomesword package.  However,
> only the sword RPM is required to run the gnomesword package.  The sword
> RPM contains:
> 
> /etc/sword.conf
> /usr/bin/diatheke
> /usr/lib/libsword.so
> /usr/lib/libsword.so.1
> /usr/lib/libsword.so.1.0.0
> /usr/lib/sword
> /usr/lib/sword/addgb
> /usr/lib/sword/addld
> /usr/lib/sword/addvs
> /usr/lib/sword/cipherraw
> /usr/lib/sword/ciphertest
> /usr/lib/sword/ciphertest2
> /usr/lib/sword/emptyvss
> /usr/lib/sword/imp2gbs
> /usr/lib/sword/imp2ld
> /usr/lib/sword/imp2vs
> /usr/lib/sword/mkfastmod
> /usr/lib/sword/mod2vpl
> /usr/lib/sword/mod2zmod
> /usr/lib/sword/modwrite
> /usr/lib/sword/step2vpl
> /usr/lib/sword/stepdump
> /usr/lib/sword/thml2gbs
> /usr/lib/sword/txt2sword
> /usr/lib/sword/vpl2mod
> /usr/share/doc/sword-1.5.3
> /usr/share/doc/sword-1.5.3/AUTHORS
> /usr/share/doc/sword-1.5.3/INSTALL
> /usr/share/doc/sword-1.5.3/NEWS
> /usr/share/doc/sword-1.5.3/README
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/abbr.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/da.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/de.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/es.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/fr.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/it.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/no.conf
> /usr/share/sword/locales.d/pt.conf
> /usr/share/sword/mods.d/globals.conf
> 
> The /usr/lib/sword directory contains the utilities.  I would like to make
> RPMs for the text modules as well.  End users should not have to unzip
> in a magic directory as root and then run mkfastmodule.
> 
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