Re: Fedora Gambas packages

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

apparently all that's needed is a .spec file.

here's the one from that fedora rpms page Oliver pointed to..
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gambas3/blob/rawhide/f/gambas3.spec

Maybe it makes sense to you Benoit and you might be able to use / modify it
to add fedora to OBS?

Respects
BruceS

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 21:35, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 23/04/2026 à 17:09, Olivier Cruilles a écrit :
> > Hi Benoit,
> >
> > I back to you regarding the discussion we had about adding the Fedora
> > build spec file into the process of OBS, and by this way be able to
> > propose Fedora Gambas packages like others Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and
> > OpenSuse distribution.
> >
> > In fact during my research I found this web site where all Fedora Gambas
> > packages are already built and available.
> >
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gambas3
> >
> > Did you be aware about that ?
> >
> > Just to have your opinion on that. Do we just add this site in the
> > Gambas Wiki as reference for user on Fedora Linux distributions, or do
> > we continue on the way to include the build on OBS like we discussed ?
> >
> > Thank  you
> >
> > Olivier
>
> It's necessary for three reasons:
>
> 1) The official packages of Gambas in the distribution are almost always
> incorrect. They must follow a structure described in the wiki, so that
> the IDE packager works. Of course, who am I to prevent a packager from
> doing what he wants and break the project it packages?
>
> 2) We can provide packages for older versions of distributions. The
> distributions usually do not care with their old versions.
>
> 3) Thanks to the 'gambas-package-config' project, adding the packages
> for a new component for all distributions normally takes less than one
> hour.
>
> As for the official Fedora packages, I don't remember if they are
> correct or not. Must look. But I guess they are not. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini.
>
>
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