[packman] [PM] Jalbum 8.7.2-0.pm.1.1 (openSUSE 11.2/i586)

[Toni]

Am Sonntag, 28. März 2010 schrieb Ralf Hartings:
> Hi Tony,
>
> Normally you are correct. However, according to David Ekholm, the
> mentioned files are the only missing files.
>
> Could you (following the advice from David):
> *Copy JLayer*.jar* and *metadata-extractor.jar* from the *lib* folder
> in  http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum8.7.2.zip and put these files  in
> the folder *lib* of your Jalbum.rpm package?
why should I ?
The sense of a packaged based distribution is to have libraries 
(java-libraires=jars) and programs only installed once.

For the Jalbum package I used/replaced:
commons-collections commons-logging javazoom jcraft metadata-extractor
with the available distribution packages.
The jdic stuff is also a candidate for replacing with the packman version, but 
in the packman repository we have a newer jdic version, so I left it out for 
the moment. With a replacement of the jdic package the 64bit users will have 
tray-support too (upstream provides only 32bit versions of the libraries).

> Although these files already exist in the OpenSuse distro, they are
> missing in other distributions. This way your rpm package would work for
> RedHat/CentOS as well and would make life a lot easier for those people!
No it won't work, as the package itself "requires" other packages (I won't 
change my spec-file) and it requires the jpackage standards (used in the 
wrapper-script) so you can only "force" the installation for other rpm-based 
distributions.
Additionally, I compiled the plugins with java-1.6, so if your distribution 
provides only java-1.5 you'll get class-version-mismatch errors....

You can grab my spec-file and adapt it easiely for other distributions.

> Thanks
>
> Ralf Hartings
> Sweden
>
> Toni wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 schrieb Ralf Hartings:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I dowloaded your rpm Jalbum-8.7.2-0.pm.1.1.i586.rpm
> >> <http://packman.links2linux.de/download/Jalbum/546688/Jalbum-8.7.2-0.pm.
> >>1.1 .i586.rpm> from http://packman.links2linux.de/package/Jalbum and
> >> installed it in my CentOs 5.4 installtion and I got the following
> >> errors/missing file information:
> >>
> >>     Missing Dependency: metadata-extractor is needed by package
> >>     Jalbum-8.7.2-0.pm.1.1.i586 (/Jalbum-8.7.2-0.pm.1.1.i586)
> >>     Missing Dependency: jlayer is needed by package
> >>     Jalbum-8.7.2-0.pm.1.1.i586 (/Jalbum-8.7.2-0.pm.1.1.i586)
> >>
> >> I contacted David Ekholm at Jalbum and he asked me to ask you to include
> >> these files in your rpm package. These file are apparently available in
> >> the Suse distribution, but not in the RedHat/CentOS distributions.
> >
> > yes, the  provided packages is for OpenSuSE only.
> >
> > And the two packages jlayer and metadata-extractor are also prvided in
> > our repsitory. You can try to install them too, but than you'll need
> > other packages ... and so we end up in a mega-package containing the most
> > SuSE packages :)
> > I hope you see that this is no solution for you. Try to install the
> > Jalbum installer frm their website instead of forcing packages in your
> > system. Even if you could install all required packages, it won't work as
> > your distribution won't provide the needed java-infrastructure for a SuSE
> > package layout.
> >
> >> Thanks for a great service!
> >>
> >> Ralf Hartings
> >> Sweden



-- 
have fun
Toni