Fedora RPMs

[Joakim]

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 14:54:29 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 11:46:37 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> On 11/19/2013 02:11 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>> Hello everybody.
>>>
>>> I have just committed few changes to 
>>> https://www.gitorious.org/dejan-
>>> fedora that allow you to build functional RPMs on your Fedora 
>>> 19 systems.
>>> I will aim for now to support F19, F20, EL5 and EL6. If 
>>> someone needs
>>> support for something else, please send patches or just 
>>> simply come to IRC
>>> and let me know what is the problem. :)
>>
>> Great, will you take the honour to submit this to Fedora?
>>>
>>> Few remarks - SPEC file expects source files to be on 
>>> http://ddn.so/
>>> files/ . I hope our release manager, or so-called "build 
>>> master" will
>>> make sure dlang.org provides source tarballs of dmd, phobos, 
>>> druntime and
>>> tools the same or similar way I have them on 
>>> http://ddn.so/files/ (btw,
>>> you can't browse it yet, but you can download files).
>>>
>>> I use the simple get-files.sh (located in the dmd directory 
>>> in the dejan-
>>> fedora repo) to get those release tarballs from GitHub.
>>>
>>> Finally, I decided to be little bit adventurous and made the 
>>> SPEC file
>>> generate dmd.conf with -defaultlib=libphobos2.so flag in 
>>> DFLAGS.
>>>
>> It would be better to stick to the current dlang state.
>>
>>> Following Fedora package guidelines, I provide static library 
>>> in the
>>> libphobos-static package instead.
>>>
>> Splitting in different packages is needed to comply with RPM 
>> guidelines, but it's a bad fit for a single binary installer 
>> on dlang.org.
>> I'm working on a spec file for the latter.
>> https://github.com/dawgfoto/installer/tree/fedoraSPEC
>
> Btw, I forgot to tell you... I talked to fedora people about 
> having dmd in Fedora. They said it will probably be rejected 
> because of the backend license, because they are not allowed to 
> freely distribute the software. So I guess we will most likely 
> have to setup our own YUM repository on dlang.org - that is 
> probably the best course of action. If someone has better idea, 
> please share it.

When I got dmd into FreeBSD ports a couple years back, I asked 
Walter for permission for them to redistribute the compiler and 
backend source and he gave it.  If the Fedora guys are okay with 
that arrangement, I'm guessing Walter will give his permission 
again.