[Etoys] etoys.spec: changes needed for inclusion in Fedora

Gavin Romig-Koch gavin at redhat.com
Mon Nov 17 17:46:06 EST 2008


I have been making changes to the etoys.spec file, so that EToys might 
get included into Fedora.  The attached patch to 
git://dev.laptop.org/projects/etoys are the changes that I believe are 
necessary to propose EToy's inclusion in Fedora.

If you are willing to accept these changes into your git repo, then I 
can simply use your spec file and SRPM as the ones submitted to 
Fedora.   If not, that's OK too, I'll just host them somewhere else 
pending inclusion into Fedora.

                                                                                            
-gavin...


This is a short explanation for each of the changes, if you need more 
explanation, please ask:

- added %{?dist} to release

    Fedora requires %{?dist} be added to all releases - it results in nothing on distro's that don't define 'dist'

- altered the License field to use cononical License short names

    Fedora requires specific short names for this field to ease License checking

- remove the Prefix (relocatable) field

    Fedora discourages relocatable RPMs.  They are allowed, but require added work, testing, and justification.   I didn't think the EToy's RPM needed to be relocatable.   If you think it needs to be relocateable, let me know and I'll add it.

- added .desktop file and etoys icon.

    Fedora requires a .desktop file for each 'desktop' application.





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