[mythtv-users] mythv 0.27 test packages (future RPM Fusion)

Steve Magnani user.serviceable at gmail.com
Fri Sep 20 13:03:57 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 07:54 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: 
> ...the spec documents a LOT of tweaks and other things to make the
> resultant package compliant with the distro's packaging guidelines. Of
> course automatic install of dependencies is nice too and you don't
> have to rely on upstreams "make uninstall" getting it right. I
> actually build everything into an RPM because sometimes a lot more is
> required than a simple make; make install and by documenting in the
> spec file I don't have to remember what I did. Also rpmbuild/rpmlint
> catch a lot of upstream problems.
> 
> 
> Specifically for mythtv it does things like create the mythtv user for
> you, install service files, log rotation, and other pre-setup
> activities, tweaks and patches that may not be in git.
> 
> 
> Richard
> [1] https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/blob/master/rpm/mythtv.spec

Is it possible to incorporate the chcon/semanage steps of
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora#SELinux

..as postinstall steps for mythweb? I end up having to do these manually
every time I install a new mythweb RPM.

Regards,
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