Hey Laca,
a) This discussion should have gone to desktop-discuss
b) I don't overly care about the naming of the linux/base spec
files, though I'm wondering does it set a precedent to
only create SUNW style spec files rather than worrying
about linux as well?
Otherwise, the rest of it looks good.
Glynn
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> This is a proposal for changing the structure of
> spec-files to be more logical and easier to grok.
>
> Comments please.
>
> Laca
>
> --8<--
> For historic reasons, spec-files is currently organised as follows:
>
> spec-files/*.spec
>
> base (formerly: linux) spec files
> the were used to build the JDS/Linux product
>
> spec-files/patches
>
> most patches
>
> spec-files/manpages
>
> JDS/Linux manual pages (no longer used)
>
> spec-files/ext-sources
>
> all sorts of foo
>
> spec-files/po-sun
>
> l10n content for JDS specific strings
>
> spec-files/LICENSE
>
> various licenses used in JDS
>
> spec-files/docs
>
> build related docs and templates
>
> spec-files/prototypes
>
> package prototype files from the official builds, for reference
>
> spec-files/scripts
>
> various scripts
>
> spec-files/Solaris
>
> Solaris spec files + spec files includes (*.inc)
>
> spec-files/Solaris/extra-specs
>
> (mostly SuSE) spec files that were not included in the JDS/Linux
> builds but %use'd by the Solaris spec files
>
> spec-files/Solaris/patches
>
> In theory: patches for Solaris-only spec files.
> In practice: a big confusion
>
> spec-files/Solaris/manpages
>
> Manual pages for the Solaris packages
>
> The biggest problem is that the Solaris spec files are hidden in Solaris/.
> This is not really intuitive, newcomers usually try to build
> spec-files/*.spec first and don't understand why it fails or what
> aaa_base is that it's looking for. There's also a lot of confusion
> caused by the 2 patches directories and extra-specs. Having the
> manpages under spec-files/Solaris and the l10n stuff under spec-files,
> although logical, doesn't make it easier to absorb this stuff.
>
> I propose the following new structure:
>
>
> spec-files/SUNW*.spec
>
> Solaris spec files. The Solaris subdir is deleted.
>
> spec-files/<subdir>/*.spec
>
> Base (nee Linux) spec files. I need a good suggestion for
> <subdir>, something like base-specs or linux-specs or used-specs.
> Any preferences?
> Solaris/extra-specs/*.spec is also moved into this dir.
>
> spec-files/closed/SUNW*.spec
>
> Spec files for closed source packages will be cast out here.
>
> spec-files/patches/*.diff
>
> All patches. (i.e. spec-files/Solaris/patches/* also moved here)
>
> spec-files/include/*
>
> Solaris.inc, default-depend.inc and in general, stuff %included
> in the Solaris spec files
>
> spec-files/manpages/**
>
> Solaris man pages, moved here from Solaris/manpages.
> The Linux man pages (currently spec-files/manpages) can be
> deleted. They are out of date and we still have them in svn
> history should we ever need them again.
>
> spec-files/ext-sources/*
>
> no change
>
> spec-files/po-sun/**
>
> no change
>
> spec-files/LICENSE
>
> no change
>
> spec-files/docs
>
> no change
>
> spec-files/prototypes
>
> no change
>
> spec-files/scripts
>
> no change
>
>
