[opensuse-packaging] %fdupes
Hi! We did some analysis on how much space is wasted by packages storing the same file twice (or more). While few packages waste megabytes (only 88 waste more than 1000Mib), 657 waste more than 20K - which sums up to 703MiB in total. Impressed? Consider using fdupes in your package. It's pretty simple: BuildRequire fdupes and then use %fdupes $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in your install section. This will check for duplicated files and make them hardlink. Just be careful that these duplicated files do not end up in different subpackages - I haven't tried what rpm does in that case. But you can also use %fdupes -s, which will create symlinks, which are easier to grasp for rpm :) So you can also combine this like this # create symlinks for my man pages %fdupes -s $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%_mandir # create hardline for the rest %fdupes $RPM_BUILD_ROOT I also added an rpmlint check that will give an error for the package if it's wasting more than 20KB (which is basically a random number). Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] suse_update_desktop_file
On Tuesday, 15. May 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote: You only read the second paragraph, didn't you? Why do you write emails where one has to read the stuff between the first and the last word? Dirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5'; installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5'; Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those variables the Debian way? That would also allow to install perl modules from newer/older distros as the exact version number is not encoded in the path. same goes for python and ruby btw. but those patches are not upstream for any of the 3 languages. another problem would be that you cant have noarch and arch packages from the same spec. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5'; installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5'; Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those variables the Debian way? That would also allow to install perl modules from newer/older distros as the exact version number is not encoded in the path. same goes for python and ruby btw. but those patches are not upstream for any of the 3 languages. another problem would be that you cant have noarch and arch packages from the same spec. One more reason to fix this. Richard. -- Richard Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:21:00 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5'; installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5'; Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those variables the Debian way? That would also allow to install perl modules from newer/older distros as the exact version number is not encoded in the path. same goes for python Actually unlike python, the perl directory layout doesn't prevent you from creating noarch packages, because it's /usr/lib/perl5 everywhere and the arch-dependent files go to /usr/lib/perl5/$arch-$os-blah-blah. Just there aren't many (read: zero) noarch perl packages in the distribution :-) Michal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib
installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi';
installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8';
debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib
installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5';
installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5';
Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those
variables the Debian way?
No, the debian way is just broken. There must be a 'vendor' somewhere
in the vendor variables...
Besides, $installvendorlib is where the noarch stuff should live.
Cheers,
Michael.
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Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
Michael Schroeder wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: suse $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi'; installvendorlib='/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8'; debian $ perl -V:installvendorarch -V:installvendorlib installvendorarch='/usr/lib/perl5'; installvendorlib='/usr/share/perl5'; Couldn't we have a lot more noarch packages by defining those variables the Debian way? No, the debian way is just broken. There must be a 'vendor' somewhere in the vendor variables... Ok, so there is no objection against removing the exact version number from the path at least? Besides, $installvendorlib is where the noarch stuff should live. The .packlist file gets installed into $installvendorarch though. See for example perl-URI. Since that file is touched by %perl_process_packlist anyways, couldn't it be moved to a noarch dir or removed? cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE Labs V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:59:40AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: Ok, so there is no objection against removing the exact version number from the path at least? Nope, we can't do this because perl may change in an incompatible way (it did so in the past). Besides, $installvendorlib is where the noarch stuff should live. The .packlist file gets installed into $installvendorarch though. See for example perl-URI. Since that file is touched by %perl_process_packlist anyways, couldn't it be moved to a noarch dir or removed? Either that or we add a noarch flag that tells it to put the packlist into vendorlib. M. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:40:13 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: Actually unlike python, the perl directory layout doesn't prevent you from creating noarch packages, because it's /usr/lib/perl5 everywhere and the arch-dependent files go to /usr/lib/perl5/$arch-$os-blah-blah. Just there aren't many (read: zero) noarch perl packages in the distribution :-) there are zero python noarch aswell. and zero ruby noarch. e.g. ruby could do the same as perl. always install into /usr/lib. the arch dependent part is encapsulated in a subdir. vendordir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby vendorlibdir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8 vendorarchdir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux Architecture independent files must go in /usr/share Richard. -- Richard Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-packaging] perl directories
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 13:35:58 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote: On 2007-05-16 11:40:13 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: Actually unlike python, the perl directory layout doesn't prevent you from creating noarch packages, because it's /usr/lib/perl5 everywhere and the arch-dependent files go to /usr/lib/perl5/$arch-$os-blah-blah. Just there aren't many (read: zero) noarch perl packages in the distribution :-) there are zero python noarch aswell. and zero ruby noarch. e.g. ruby could do the same as perl. always install into /usr/lib. the arch dependent part is encapsulated in a subdir. vendordir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby vendorlibdir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8 vendorarchdir: /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux Architecture independent files must go in /usr/share thats the theory. now lets see the practice. If you change something there's no need to not follow the theory. Richard. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
