I have built and run this package successfully and checked all the issues in the Review Guidelines against the package. 

$ rpmlint /var/lib/mock/fedora-11-i386/result/fossil-*
3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

I think this package is good and I would APPROVE it, but I am not a packager.

- The compiler flags given in the Makefile should be replaced by %{optflags}, e.g. by adding
  sed -i 's/^\(BCC\|TCC\) =.*$/\1 = gcc %{optflags}/' Makefile
to the %prep section.

- The folder "www" contains the documentation of fossil. It's probably a good idea to add it to a -doc sub-package.

(In reply to comment #2)
>   sed -i 's/^\(BCC\|TCC\) =.*$/\1 = gcc %{optflags}/' Makefile

I just noticed that src/main.mk recognizes CFLAGS, so it's sufficient to replace
  %{__make} %{?_smp_mflags} 
with 
  %{__make} CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{?_smp_mflags}

Diff: http://code.google.com/p/silassewell/source/diff?spec=svn327&r=327&format=side&path=/trunk/projects/packages/rpms/fossil/fossil.spec

SRPM: http://silassewell.googlecode.com/files/fossil-0.0-0.2.20090828225927.fc12.src.rpm

rpmlint

[silas@fox rpmbuild]$ rpmlint /var/lib/mock/fedora-rawhide-i386/result/*.rpm
4 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Fossil uses copies of sqlite3.h and sqlite3.c that are bundled with the tarball. I fear it's necessary to remove them and use the development files from package sqlite-devel instead (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Bundled_Libraries). 

It's not too complicated to modify the sources. However, the code also references the internal sqlite function sqlite3StrICmp that is not available through libsqlite3. So it must probably be patched in somewhere.

Both Fossil and SQLite were created by D. Richard Hipp. I'm not knowledgable enough about the SQLite or Fossil code base to feel comfortable maintaining a patch where my incompetence could destroy peoples data.

I'll leave the SRPM up in case someone else is interested, but I'm closing this request.

Thanks for your work and I'm sorry I wasted your time.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Fossil uses copies of sqlite3.h and sqlite3.c that are bundled with the
> tarball. I fear it's necessary to remove them and use the development files
> from package sqlite-devel instead
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Bundled_Libraries). 
> 
> It's not too complicated to modify the sources. However, the code also
> references the internal sqlite function sqlite3StrICmp that is not available
> through libsqlite3. So it must probably be patched in somewhere.  

Indeed it's not too complicated to modify the sources. I have attached a patch for the latest version of fossil (from the development repository), but it works just as well with fossil-src-20091103194336.tar.gz (it's listed on the "Download" page). The only catch is that it doesn't work with the current sqlite-devel, but it does work sqlite-devel-3.6.17-1.fc11.x86_64 which is available in the updates-testing repository. I assume that after some time it will be available in the updates repository. Also, all the fossil automated tests pass with 0 errors.


@Silas Sewell
If you still want to package fossil, don't forget to run "tclsh src/makemake.tcl > src/main.mk" after applying the patch. Also, delete the sqlite3 bundled files to be sure you're not compiling them.

Created attachment 368322 [details]
Makes fossil to use the sqlite3 library provided by the system

Fossil comes with its own sqlite3 library, but we want to use the one provided by the system.

Thanks for submitting the patching.

I guess I don't have enough interest to properly maintain this package (gits good enough for me), but hopefully someone who is interested can combine the patch+spec and have a pretty decent start.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 959118 ***