spooles is a library for working with sparse matrices. It is not yet supported by Fedora. Link to .srpm: http://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/fedora/libspooles-2.2-1.fc12.src.rpm/download Details on the base package: - http://www.netlib.org/linalg/spooles/spooles.2.2.html - the spooles library is in the public domain. - one IO file [Utilities/src/iohb.c] uses a BSD license. It probably could be removed. - it works on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. The debug printf's might be broken on 64-bit archs - there are serial, parallel [pthread] and MPI functions. Details on the .rpm: - two rpms: libspooles and libspooles-devel - header files are copied into /usr/include/spooles/ The same path is used by debian. - the serial and parallel version are built as a shared library (/usr/lib/libspooles.so) - MPI is not included. As far as I understand the packaging guidelines (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MPI), MPI libraries should be separate rpms and should be provided for all supported MPI implementations. This is a binary incompatibility to the debian .deb file: debian builds one big .so file with serial, parallel and mpi. - the documentation [provided as .tex files, fixes necessary - at least psfig must be replaced] is not built. - the license is set to BSD as the most restrictive license.
Spec URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/fedora/libspooles.spec/download SRPM URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/fedora/libspooles-2.2-2.fc12.src.rpm/download ldconfig was missing in %post and %postun
Here are issues found during my first run on the package: - the package name must be "spooles" as is the project's and the source archive name (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#General_Naming) - the libspooles.so symlink belongs to the devel subpackage - the format of changelog entries is wrong - see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Changelogs - when macro names are used in changelog entries, they must be prefixed with % so they are not interpreted there
A good start Manfred, some updates to assist you: - align tags - < 80 in %desc - drop cd ${RPM_BUILD_DIR}/%{name}-%{version}, it's not needed - change rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/* to rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT - simplify %install - move libspooles.so to -devel - clean up changelog spec: http://terjeros.fedorapeople.org/libspooles/libspooles.spec patch: http://terjeros.fedorapeople.org/libspooles/libspooles.spec.patch If you could do a koji scratch build from srpm that would be nice: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system#Scratch_builds_2
Manfred, are you still interested in getting the Calculix stuff into Fedora?
I'd like to, but I did not have the time to make further steps. My only progress since February is merge of upstream changes :-( Is is possible that you leave the bug reports open until after Christmas? http://sourceforge.net/projects/calculix-rpm/files/rel-2.2/
Thanks for the response and have no worries, the review can wait.
Any updates soon or is the review dead?
You can mark the review as dead, unfortunately :-( I'll continue to maintain the package, but it's difficult for me to find time to update it if the upstream package is updated. Thus it's not realistic that I'll be able to maintain an official Fedora package properly. If someone else is interested in taking it over, I'd support that.
Closing per #8