Many things that are part of the release tarball are missing from the RPM package. Some are important, including missing man page for hgignore, missing hgweb.cgi/hgwebdir.cgi, and so forth. I repeat my offer to assume packager or co-packager responsibility for this package.
mercurial-0.9.4-1.fc7 is in updates-testing. Would you like to send a patch to add anything missing?
Thank you, that is very generous. I may not be able to get a response to you until late tomorrow or the next day -- we are in mid-releease here.
Neal: two attachments coming. The first is a patch to get the contrib/ directory installed and tell the hgk extension where it went. This incidentally solves the problem with missing hg-ssh and various cgi scripts. When you review, this is the net effect of the setup.py patch. Choice of install location seems consistent with FC convention, and also honors consensus from discussion on hg IRC -- I'll be submitting both of these patches upstream, and I don't expect any controversy. The second is an updated spec file, because there were man an uninstalled man page and a need to generate an /etc/mercurial/hgrc on the fly. IMHO this is the least that should be done to build a clean RPM. These patches do NOT resolve the issue that some widely used contrib packages are not yet distributed as part of mercurial tarball (but soon will be). That update will be very fast if you want it. Do you want me to pursue that as well?
Created attachment 180141 [details] Patch to setup.py to get contrib/ subtree installed
Created attachment 180161 [details] Revised spec file incorporating missing installs and %files
Nice! I wonder if we should also install mercurial.el where emacs/xemacs will find it?
The HG team was extremely cooperative. I'm not a python hacker really, but with their help the whole thing took < 4hrs once I got on it, including learning python distutils, which I had never looked at before. Hopefully their involvement will help ease those patches into head upstream. Concerning emacs: concern is that it may not be installed. At present, emacs users can (load ..) it from the contrib dir. Do you know if stuff be put in site-lisp before emacs core is installed? I suspect the issue will come down to figuring out who actually owns the site-lisp directory. Oh, this is hugely funny. On my current FC6 machine, rpm -q -f /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp names no fewer than five packages that claim to own that directory. It's perfectly clear that some of those do not "Require:" emacs, so I think we can do that safely. Let me test whether that works first. If so, I assume you want the patch appended here?
Neal: I have one further issue pending. It's a feature enhancement, and it may turn out to be solved already, but I want to give you a "heads up". From IRC discussions, hg currently uses the python sys.path to find extensions, and it supposedly does not add any new locations to consult. If you want to package an add-on extension, you either have to put it in site-lisp or tell users to name its path explicitly. This presents some problems. If you put it in site-lisp, then you'll get package collisions when an extension graduates into core. If you have the user put in an explicit path, they'll forget they did it and never see the later versions. The hg team agrees this is an issue, that it is easy to fix, and three approaches emerged. I'm exploring this now, and I'll either have it solved or abandoned in a couple of hours. Because it impacts the ability to package add-ons, you might want to hold -2 to incorporate this, or possibly spin -3. Up to you; just providing a heads-up.
[ping Jonathan S. Shapiro] Any news on the above?
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Since the immediate problem was resolved by later package updates, I'm closing this.