I've learnt recently that gcstar has a new upstream: https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar This upstream has already made a number of releases. We should update to the current one (1.7.4 at time of writing).
I'm the upstream maintainer of GCstar. The lastest version is 1.8.0 (https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/releases). In https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/tree/main/gcstar/packages/fedora , there is a recipe to build a RPM package but the dependencies need to be fixed.
Looks like the gang's all here. :-) I remember trying out the upstream spec and having rpmlint errors and warnings. I decided to take a shot at fixing them and then never got around to it. Looks like it's time to give it another shot.
I modified the Gitlab CI recipes to create a generic RPM package https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/packages/13986875 (using gcstar/packages/rpm/gcstar.spec). It can be used to install the new version of GCstar until it's updated as an official Fedora package. The Fedora recipe (gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.spec) is similar but relocate the libraries from /usr/lib/gcstar to /usr/share/gcstar : I don't know if it's a hard constraint. Some Perl dependencies are missing on Fedora : MP3::Tag, Net::FreeDB, Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl. They should be installable with cpan but I don't know how it can be integrated in the RPM package. Hope this helps.
(In reply to Kerenoc from comment #3) > The Fedora > recipe (gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.spec) is similar but relocate the > libraries from /usr/lib/gcstar to /usr/share/gcstar : I don't know if it's a > hard constraint. We try to conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) to minimize differences between distributions. The FHS states that /usr/lib is for libraries for the binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin while /usr/share is for architecture-independent shared data. Honestly, /usr/share seems the way to go. > Some Perl dependencies are missing on Fedora : MP3::Tag, Net::FreeDB, > Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl. They should be installable with cpan but I > don't know how it can be integrated in the RPM package. This, I can probably help with.
Thanks for the info on the FHS. The next version of GCstar will be compliant to avoid patches for packaging.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39.