How to provide an rpm package for Mageia/Fedora/openSUSE

[jtmh]

MMEX v0.9.9.0 is now officially released, and its source code is also available on the MMEX Downloads Web page. That makes me wanna maintain a binary rpm package for the Mageia distro. How can I provide the package for the development team? And is there anything I should notice? Thanks.

[Nikolay]

readme file included into src package into /setup/linux/rpm/ folder

https://moneymanagerex.svn.sourceforge. ... readme.txt

[jtmh]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'd like to know that when I get the rpm package ready, should I upload it as an attachment with a new reply or by other ways?

[Nikolay]

Just attach here. I'll check it then it will be provided for downloads on sourceforge.net

[jtmh]

MMEX v0.9.9.0 RPM i586-32bit package for Mageia 2 is attached below. Note that its file extension ".zip" is appended on purpose because the forum doesn't accept a ".rpm" attachment. Please remove ".zip" first before checking it. Upon its installation, the system will also install the following two RPMs:

1. libwxgtku2.8_0-2.8.12-9.mga2.i586.rpm
2. wxgtk2.8-2.8.12-9.mga2.i586.rpm

from the Mageia 2 Core i586 repository.

[Nikolay]

I am trying to install this package on Fedora

Failed to obtain authentication.

[jtmh]

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "Failed to obtain authentication." Currently, my package only works (i.e., installs and runs) on Mageia 2 i586 system.

I've tried it on Mageia 1. It installed fine but didn't run. The error message from Konsole:
mmex: relocation error: mmex: symbol _Z23wxHandleFatalExceptionsb, version WXU_2.8 not defined in file libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 with link time reference

I've also tried it on Fedora 17 i686 Live KDE and Desktop (GNOME) today. For Live KDE, there was an "Installing unsigned software" warning dialog popping up while installation, but I could proceed by answering "Yes."

install warning on fdr17 kde.png (40.89 KiB) Viewed 8871 times

However, it aborted with a fatal error upon running:

start error on fdr17 kde.png

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For Live Desktop, the package installed fine, but aborted with the same fatal error upon running:

start error on fdr17 gnome.png (33.89 KiB) Viewed 8871 times

It seems that all the runtime errors are related to incompatible libraries between my system for building the RPM package and the actual systems for running MMEX.

[jtmh]

After doing lots of investigations, I've realized that there exist version incompatibility problems with the wxgtk/libpng/... libraries across rpm-based distros, e.g., Fedora, openSUSE, and Mageia. Some are due to different configure options used, e.g., whether wxgtk should be compatible with its version 2.4 or 2.6; some are due to that old version libraries are not installed by default or no longer provided for some new distro versions, e.g., libpng 1.2. Therefore, I've decided to build some rpms against wxgtk static libraries (as noted in INSTALL.txt for mmex) for some main distro versions. Here are the results for openSUSE and Mageia (Due to maximum attachment number is 3, I'll attachment the Fedora rpms in the next reply.):

• For openSUSE 11.4 / 12.1:

  mmex-0.9.9.0-1.i586.rpm.zip

  openSUSE 11.4 / 12.1 RPM (v0.9.9.0)

  (3.79 MiB) Downloaded 614 times

• For Mageia 1:

  mmex-0.9.9.0-1.mga1.i586.rpm.zip

  Mageia 1 RPM (v0.9.9.0)

  (3.57 MiB) Downloaded 629 times

• For Mageia 2:

  mmex-0.9.9.0-2.mga2.i586.rpm.zip

  Mageia 2 RPM (v0.9.9.0)

  (3.82 MiB) Downloaded 618 times

Note that the files above are given the file extension ".zip" on purpose because the forum doesn't accept ".rpm" attachments. Please remove ".zip" first before checking them. Thanks.

[jtmh]

Here are the rpms for Fedora:

• For Fedora 15 / 16:

  mmex-0.9.9.0-1.fc16.i386.rpm.zip

  Fedora 15 / 16 RPM (v0.9.9.0)

  (4.84 MiB) Downloaded 675 times

• For Fedora 17:

  mmex-0.9.9.0-1.fc17.i386.rpm.zip

  Fedora 17 RPM (v0.9.9.0)

  (4.82 MiB) Downloaded 622 times

[jtmh]

Any comments on my rpms?

[Nikolay]

Many thanks for you effort.

packages now available for download here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/moneyma ... 200.9.9.0/
and
http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/mmex_download.php

[phira]

hello every one

I come from ubuntu to suze 12.3

I tried to install your package and it give me this error message:
unknown error blabla bla
[PK_TMP_DIR|dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.ViFvFt] Repository already exists.

As I am very knew with opensuze, it may be a mistake on my side but I don't know what to do with this

can you help?

[Nikolay]

it seems rpm package for Suse not the same for RedHut or Mageia.

sorry I have no ideas.

PS I don't know any reasons to change Ubuntu to Suse.
IMHO deb based distro more popula that others.
If you Linux advanced user try Arch Linux or Gentoo or Slackware

[phira]

thanks for the answer

ubuntu to suse or anything else: more or less: philosophical reasons ( begin to be too commercial and hand to hand with google and amazon)
but ok, let's go back to ubuntu if I have no choice.

[Nikolay]

Did you try to create a rpm package already by yourself?

http://sourceforge.net/p/moneymanagerex ... readme.txt

[phira]

I would like so, but mmex does not work In cannot find the correct dependancies.
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never mind: I roll back to ubuntu: MMEX is more important for me than the OS
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