Re: Fedora Packages

Rich,

Thanks very much. I (and I'm sure all the devs) really appreciate this
kind of work. I hope I can buy you a beer sometime. Meanwhile, props
to you.

Richard/

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Rich Mattes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
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> I’ve been working on packaging Stage for Fedora, and I’m happy to announce
> that the Stage 3.2.2 package has been approved.  Packages are going to be
> available for Fedora 11 onward, and should show up in the Testing
> repositories sometime tonight or tomorrow.  After about a week or so,
> barring any bugs, they’ll be pushed to the Stable repositories.  Once this
> happens, Stage will be available to install through the normal package
> management tools (PackageKit and yum).
>
>
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> Since Player 3.0.1 is also available in the Fedora repositories as of a
> month ago, the Player plugin to Stage is provided (in the stage-playerplugin
> package).
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> For Fedora, Player and Stage have been patched to look for plugin libraries
> in /usr/lib/player and /usr/lib/stage respectively, in addition to all of
> their other search paths.  Stage installs stageplugin.so to /usr/lib/player,
> and it installs its included behavior plugins to /usr/lib/stage.  This
> change was made to keep private, dlopened libraries off of the system’s
> library search path.  Most programs that use plugins use this method to
> install their plugin libraries.  It also helps maintain compatibility with
> configuration files (by avoiding having to prepend “lib” to all of the
> library filenames if they’re put in /usr/lib).
>
>
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> Once Stage is in the stable repositories, I’ll update the wiki’s
> installation instructions page to reflect the procedure for installing
> Player and Stage in Fedora.
>
>
>
> Rich
>
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