[ATrpms-users] Fedora-ized version of 915resolution

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:36:28AM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> >   
> >> Until the modesetting version of the i810 drivers come out in Xorg 7.1
> >> ...  people are going to continue to struggle with the broken video BIOS
> >> that many laptop manufacturers release.
> >>
> >> Would it make sense to put:
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.redfish-solutions.com/pub/915resolution-0.5.2-3.src.rpm
> >>
> >> onto ATrpms?
> >>     
> >
> > Why not. But I tried building it, and it fails with
> >
> > + install -c -p 915resolution /var/tmp/915resolution-0.5.2-root/usr/sbin
> > + install -c -p rc.915resolution /var/tmp/915resolution-0.5.2-root/etc/rc.d/init.d/915resolution
> > install: cannot stat `rc.915resolution': No such file or directory
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2920 (%install)
> >   
> 
> What are the contents of the ../BUILD/915resolution-0.5.2/ directory?

There is no such folder on my system. :)

> [root at platinum SPECS]# gunzip -c ../SOURCES/915resolution-0.5.2.tar.gz | tar tvf -
> drwxr-xr-x philipp/philipp   0 2006-07-11 10:28 915resolution-0.5.2/
> -rwxr-xr-x philipp/philipp  65 2006-02-02 07:01 915resolution-0.5.2/dump_bios
> -rw-rw-r-- philipp/philipp 1729 2006-07-10 10:45 915resolution-0.5.2/915resolution-0.5.2-3.spec
> -rw-r--r-- philipp/philipp  208 2006-06-22 11:41 915resolution-0.5.2/Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- philipp/philipp 23577 2006-02-02 07:28 915resolution-0.5.2/915resolution.c
> -rw-r--r-- philipp/philipp   497 2006-02-02 07:01 915resolution-0.5.2/chipset_info.txt
> -rw-r--r-- philipp/philipp   244 2006-02-02 07:18 915resolution-0.5.2/changes.log
> -rw-rw-r-- philipp/philipp   998 2006-07-11 10:28 915resolution-0.5.2/rc.915resolution
> -rw-r--r-- philipp/philipp  5441 2006-02-02 07:35 915resolution-0.5.2/README.txt
> -rw-r--r-- philipp/philipp   946 2006-02-02 07:01 915resolution-0.5.2/LICENSE.txt
> -rw-rw-r-- philipp/philipp   261 2006-07-10 11:11 915resolution-0.5.2/sysconfig.915resolution

Now I see, you are using modified sources, as you write further
below. See my comments at the end.

> Can you try again?

> >> I've asked the author to pick up the changes, but never heard back.  Sigh.
> > Which changes?
> 
> Adding the .spec file, the rc.d file, and the /etc/sysconfig file...
> I've made no changes to the source itself... though it could
> certainly stand it.

You shouldn't pick a tarfile and modify its contents w/o changing the
name. And for packaging purposes one should always use the pristine
sources and add changes as Patch entries and new files as Source
entries.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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