Improve Spec file, build openSUSE and Fedora on OBS

[tamara-schmitz]

I fixed up the spec file and merged the second one into the first one, taking care of Fedora and SUSE specific dependencies.

Both Fedora and openSUSE packages are built on OBS and can be installed from there: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:tschmitz:activate-linux/activate-linux

Updates are not automatic. A GitHub webhook with a private key would have to be set up for that.

The Git repo is pulled using a _service file that is stored on the OBS repository. Setting up Webhooks is explained here: https://openbuildservice.org/2021/05/31/scm-integration/

[tamara-schmitz]

@LizAinslie I removed your separate spec file and made sure that the main one works on Fedora as well. Can you please check if it is still compatible with your build script?

[LizAinslie]

@LizAinslie I removed your separate spec file and made sure that the main one works on Fedora as well. Can you please check if it is still compatible with your build script?

@tamara-schmitz I'll give it a look later today or tomorrow on my day off. It should work if it's in line with the rpm specifications

[tamara-schmitz]

oops. i forgot how to merge upstream into my branch. had to do a force push. but the commits are still the same

[tamara-schmitz]

Turns out that if someone writes a PKGBUILD for Archlinux, OBS can also build binaries for Arch.

[tamara-schmitz]

I should probably set a sensible version number. But the way it was before with overwriting it to "git" breaks the build system.

[LizAinslie]

Sorry I haven't been available to test this, I'll try to give it a go today.

[tamara-schmitz]

Sorry I haven't been available to test this, I'll try to give it a go today.

aww don't worry

[LizAinslie]

alright, I just got a moment to spool up a fedora system and test, you'll want to change https://github.com/tamara-schmitz/activate-linux/blob/main/build-rpm.sh#L24 to refer to the proper spec file and the tar file generation needs to be changed to use -0 instead of -git.

here's an updated script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

###
# Run it on fedora or else
###

# Create rpmbuild structure
rpm_dir="$HOME/rpmbuild"
mkdir -p "$rpm_dir/RPMS"
mkdir -p "$rpm_dir/SPECS"
mkdir -p "$rpm_dir/SOURCES"

# Build tarfile
tar_out="/tmp/activate-linux-0.tar.gz"
cur_dir=$(pwd)
mkdir -p /tmp/tarbuild/
cp -r . /tmp/tarbuild/activate-linux-0
cd /tmp/tarbuild || exit
tar -czf $tar_out .
cd "$cur_dir" || exit

# Build RPM
cp $tar_out "$rpm_dir/SOURCES/activate-linux-0.tar.gz"
cp activate-linux.spec "$rpm_dir/SPECS/"
rpmbuild -bb "$rpm_dir/SPECS/activate-linux.spec" --nodebuginfo

# Clean
rm -rf /tmp/tarbuild
rm $tar_out

[tamara-schmitz]

alright, I just got a moment to spool up a fedora system and test, you'll want to change https://github.com/tamara-schmitz/activate-linux/blob/main/build-rpm.sh#L24 to refer to the proper spec file and the tar file generation needs to be changed to use -0 instead of -git.

Sorry for all the pushes. I went a step further and used a sed to parse the version from the spec file. I also tested this now and it works in its new form in a Fedora 36 VM.

[LizAinslie]

alright, I just got a moment to spool up a fedora system and test, you'll want to change https://github.com/tamara-schmitz/activate-linux/blob/main/build-rpm.sh#L24 to refer to the proper spec file and the tar file generation needs to be changed to use -0 instead of -git.

Sorry for all the pushes. I went a step further and used a sed to parse the version from the spec file. I also tested this now and it works in its new form in a Fedora 36 VM.

Amazing! I'm fairly busy elsewhere otherwise I would have taken the time to write a similar system myself, glad to hear it's been done for me 😅

[tamara-schmitz]

@MrGlockenspiel Hello. Please review my PR.

[MrGlockenspiel]

Looks good to me