Re: Fedora Gambas packages

[Olivier Cruilles <olivier.cruilles@xxxxxxxx>]

In fact Bruce, it’s me who is doing the work to include Fedora spec into OBS format/procedure as we discussed with Benoit.

So I will continue in the same way we decide in the first time.

Thx Benoit

Olivier



> Le 23 avr. 2026 à 17:17, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> 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 <mailto: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.
>> 
>>