I did the 0.40 Fedora RPMs. To be honest it was a total mess up. I'm not very experienced with packaging, but after I managed to actually package the thing, it always crashed on startup. Per Bjornsson worked out (I could never have done it) that this was due to a problem with FC3. Basically (from what I understand), FC3 was, at that time (I don't know about now), using the FC2 compiled GTKmm stack, and due to changes in GCC, this was producing a bad binary. The solution was to recompile the whole GTKmm stack under FC3, and then compile Inkscape, which would work. However, this did mean that it would only work with a recompiled GTKmm stack. Using third party repos, though, I'm surprised he had trouble installing it (see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10303812). If I had seen this sooner I would certainly have requested it to be taken down. Still, there is always the option of using the static RPM.
I tried to get my RPM published as an official Fedora one (so it would get good QA and guaranteed compatibility). However, after posting on the list they told me there was already an Inkscape RPM in the works. This was before even the Fedora pre-extras was announced. And the *actual* Fedora extras repo has only been available since Feb 03. Quite a big screw up if I may say so.
Anyway, the discussion that took place on this list is here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10241295
I'm pretty fed up with Fedora and the whole RPM idea anyway, and therefore, as of next week (hopefully), I'll be a Gentoo user. So although I think it would be possibly to make a Fedora-compatibly RPM now, it really wouldn't be a good idea for me to do it. Perhaps Per would like to?
Regards, and sorry for the mess, Jon
bulia byak wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:51:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
Kees has been kind enough to take responsibility for producing the Windows and static rpm packages. Since these are often the most frequent downloads, I'm comfortable doing the announcement sooner than usual, however I'd like to provide packagers at least a full day to create platform specific packages.
Whoever did the Fedora RPMs for 0.40 might want to read this:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FC3
which basically claims that those RPMs were uninstallable due to unsatisfiable dependencies.
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