[Bug 451744] Review Request: root - The CERN analyzer for high to medium energy physics

[bugzilla at redhat.com]

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
comments should be made in the comments box of this bug.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744





--- Comment #7 from Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>  2008-10-03 18:22:55 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> I don't have a new package to submit yet, but I do have some comments and
> questions.
> 
> Patrice:
> The only apparent difference between root and root.exe seems to be that root
> displays a splash screen and then calls root.exe.

Ok.

> I had originally not included the cernlib requirement because I thought cernlib
> was not being developed anymore. At least, the last release seems to have been
> in 2006.  Maybe the root people will update minicern more often then cernlib
> will get updated.  From my personal preference I'd prefer minicern, but if the
> Fedora standards require cernlib-utils to be used, I guess I'll make those
> changes.

Indeed, cernlib is dead upstream, but I still maintain it in fedora.
You are right that minicern may be updated more often, but it has very
little coverage compared with cernlib. The fedora policy is to use
only one library to fix bugs everywhere, but minicern is small and
a fork, so it is not obvious what to do. I'd say that as an exception
minicern can be used in root. If there are other advices it'd be 
better.

> I thought unrar was only part of livna.  Is this up for inclusion in F10?

There is an unrar in fedora, but that cannot do all that the
livna one can do.

> Also, how do I add the fedora flags?  Should I patch the Makefile to include
> them, or is there a different method to include this into the spec file. The
> packaging guidelines are not very clear on this matter.

They cannot be clear, since it depends on the package. It may
be as simple as using %configure or very complicated, depending
on the package.

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug.