Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 159189
Upgrade to 0.57
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:07 EST
A patch is needed to compile synaptic 0.56.1 on FC4t3. Also included are some patches to the .desktop (which probably needs some more massaging, as I patched against the stock synaptic.desktop). The combined patches allowed me to install and use synaptic-0.56.1 on a FC4t3 system.
Created attachment 114984 [details] fetcher patch
Created attachment 114985 [details] .desktop patches
Created attachment 114986 [details] synaptic.spec diff diff against synaptic-0.55.3-3 spec file
Sorry for the slow response - 0.57 has been released in the meantime. Updated package here: http://fedora.laiskiainen.org/SRPMS.extras/synaptic-0.57-1.src.rpm Ville, could you update the package in CVS? Hmm, I think this should have %{?dist} in release as well since I guess it should be released for all current distros. Oh and Ville, let me know if you prefer the update in patches instead of whole src.rpm's.
Patches vs srpms: doesn't matter much. If it's a simple specfile patch, maybe then as patch. But other stuff: Why are there two almost equivalent desktop files in the first place? And why does the GNOME version execute hardcoded /usr/sbin/synaptic, shouldn't it be just (pathless) "synaptic"? I gather /usr/sbin/synaptic won't work for non-root anyway. The KDE-only desktop entry could use the same added Categories as the GNOME one. I added %{?dist}, and took the liberty of configuring with --disable-dependency-tracking; that may speed up the build and results in a bit less messy build output. To confirm, you'd like to push this update for all FC-3, FC-4 and devel? Not committed yet, awaiting comments...
Doh, 'twas a bit of a hasty update. Didn't realize the kde-desktop file got installed at all and of course the /usr/sbin path is incorrect, should be /usr/bin/synaptic to force it through consolehelper (otherwise if user has /usr/sbin in path early it'll fail to function at all). I'm not at a linux box now (haven't been for a week) so can't fix now, I should be back on my own systems next week, will update to 0.57.2 and fix these issues then. And yes, I intend it for all fc3, fc4 and devel.
Ok, here's the new version fixing the desktop stuff and also #163036 http://fedora.laiskiainen.org/SRPMS.extras/synaptic-0.57.2-1.fc5.src.rpm
Ok, committed to CVS with a couple of self-explanatory micro tweaks. Will tag and ask for a build when the build system is operational again. While checking this out, I noticed something you might want to take a look in the future: The dirs /usr/share/gnome, /usr/share/gnome/help, and /usr/share/omf are unowned. But Synaptic isn't the only "criminal" wrt. these, for example /usr/share/omf should probably be owned by scrollkeeper. Dunno about the gnome and gnome/help dirs.
0.57.2-1 is in the repo for FC3+
Thanks !