Re: [Ltib] spec file for json-c-0.8

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> > > Looks good to me.  It just needs entries for Packager, Group and URL.

... snip ...

> The group needs to be something from /usr/share/doc/rpm-xxxx/GROUPS:
>
> Amusements/Games
> Amusements/Graphics
> Applications/Archiving
> Applications/Communications
> Applications/Databases
> Applications/Editors
> Applications/Emulators
> Applications/Engineering
> Applications/File
> Applications/Internet
> Applications/Multimedia
> Applications/Productivity
> Applications/Publishing
> Applications/System
> Applications/Text
> Development/Debuggers
> Development/Languages
> Development/Libraries
> Development/System
> Development/Tools
> Documentation
> System Environment/Base
> System Environment/Daemons
> System Environment/Kernel
> System Environment/Libraries
> System Environment/Shells
> User Interface/Desktops
> User Interface/X
> User Interface/X Hardware Support
>
> Regards, Stuart

  there's nothing so simple that i can't take it and make it painfully
complicated.  :-)

  regarding group, i downloaded the json packages onto my fedora 9
system to identify the group and, not surprisingly, like many distros,
fedora breaks a lot of packages into two parts:

  1) the run-time part (typically just shared libs)
  2) the development part (which includes header files)

  in the case of json, fedora supports two packages:

  $ rpm -qi json-glib
  ...
  Group       : System Environment/Libraries
  ...

  $ rpm -qi json-glib-devel
  ...
  Group       : Development/Libraries
  ...

since i'm assuming most people will want to build json under LTIB just
for the run-time part, i suspect the more appropriate group would be
"System Environment/Libraries", as it might be for most packages that
have that property.

rday
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