[Hobbes1069]

(04-07-2012, 10:41 AM)duvjones Wrote:

(03-31-2012, 04:22 AM)Hobbes1069 Wrote: I went ahead and took a look but there's no way that the project would be acceptable into Fedora as it stands today. I'm sure the reasons have been discussed before but to summarize:
- Bundled libs
- Downloading external dependencies during building
- Downloading BINARY dependencies during building
- No FHS compliant "make install" target.

I went ahead and created an SRPM which instead installs everything to /opt/nightingale. Due to the fact that I have pre-downloaded the external dependencies, the package is quite large (100+MB) but it does work for both i686 and x86_64 architectures.

Since I don't currently use nightingale, I was wondering if anyone was willing to take my SRPM and use it to build binary RPMS to be "officially" supported and hosted by the project.

Thanks,
Richard

Correct me if I am wrong, but would it not be acceptable to apply for the package to be RPMFusion.org instead of Fedora proper?

Other than allowing patent encumbered (e.g. ffmpeg/mp3 playback/encoding, etc.) in the free repository and free to use (but not FOSS) in the non-free repo, RPM Fusion still uses the same guidelines in Fedora. So no... Unfortunately the items I listed above would need to be fixed before it would be allowed in either Fedora or RPM Fusion.

Richard