Re: update proposal on conglomerate spec file

David Malcolm <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:40:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.editors.conglomerate.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:30 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:30:06PM +0200, Sean Wheller wrote:
> > On Monday 25 April 2005 19:34, David Malcolm wrote:
> 
>  <snip/>
> 
> > > > In a recent effort to try and understand the problems a user who had
> > > > installed Conglomerate and was speaking about. Since I had not touched
> > > > the program in some time, I tried installing the latest release on SuSE
> > > > 9.2 and was met by the following error
> > > > conglomerate.rpm install failed
> > > > rpm output:
> > > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26168: line 2: gconftool-2: command not found
> > > > error: %post(conglomerate-0.9.0-1.1.fc2.rf) scriptlet failed, exit status
> > > > 127
> > >
> > > The "fc2" in this line looks like it might be the problem; it look like
> > > you were either installing a package from Fedora Extras, or upgrading on
> > > top of one from Fedora Extras. Where did you get the RPM from?
> > 
> > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/conglomerate/
> > 
> > I have installed FC2 RPMs before and had no problem.
> > 
> > I am not sure of the technical problem behind it. All I know is that it was 
> > hard for me and others unless we installed the version packaged with the 
> > distro. For example the version that comes with SuSE 9.2, just works 
> > (v0.7.14). But for 0.9.0 we had problems. Although, Conglomerate 0.9.0 did 
> > run after this error I am not sure if there is some functionality now missing 
> > or not being displayed because of this error. Any instability I found, I was 
> > not sure if it was because of this error or just that the app was wonky. :-)
> 
> 
> Hi Dag,
> 
> In your role as maintainer of the leading spec file,
> what is your opion on this proposal:
> 
> --- conglomerate.spec.in        3 Apr 2005 21:35:38 -0000       1.10
> +++ conglomerate.spec.in        26 Apr 2005 06:10:13 -0000
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
>  BuildRequires: libgnomeprintui22-devel, gtksourceview-devel, gtk-doc
>  BuildRequires: scrollkeeper
> 
> -Requires: scrollkeeper
> +Requires: scrollkeeper, gconf2
> 
>  %description
>  Conglomerate is a project to create a complete structured information
> 
> 
> 
> Does it make sense?
> If yes, please include it in your version control system.

We should also require Norman Walsh's DocBook stylesheets.
On Fedora/Red Hat they're in the "docbook-style-xsl" package.