[Coin-discuss] Some problems on experimental coin-or fedora package

[Paulo César Pereira de Andrade]

  Hi,

  I made an experimental coin-or package, at first from the CoinAll tarball,
any feedback is welcome, e.g. if it is really desirable to make a package for
every sub project, for easier updates, etc (I am more friendly to CoinAll
because it is supposed to be tested that all bits work together).

  Running fedora-review on the package I see these fatal errors:

coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/miplib3/AUTHORS
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/miplib3/LICENSE
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/Netlib/README
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/Sample/AUTHORS
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/Sample/LICENSE
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/Netlib/LICENSE
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/miplib3/README
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/Sample/README
coin-or.x86_64: E: zero-length /usr/share/coin/doc/Data/Netlib/AUTHORS

  Maybe those were supposed to be symbolic links?

  The warnings from fedora-review are issues that I can easily handle,
for example, \r\n line endings on some files, sources with executable bit
set, etc. These may be of special interest:

coin-or.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary cbc
coin-or.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary blis
coin-or.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary symphony
coin-or.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary clp
coin-or.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary OSSolverService

help2man is not of much use for these, but it should be easy to create
simple manpages based on documentation.

  Another issue, I see that the COIN-OR-1.6.2-linux-x86_64-gcc4.4.5.tar.gz
tarball does not distribute the AUTHORS, README and LICENSE files,
but does distribute several pdf files. I do not see a make target to create
those, but I may be missing something trivial.

The initial package is at:
Spec: http://fedorapeople.org/~pcpa/coin-or.spec
SRPM: http://fedorapeople.org/~pcpa/coin-or-1.6.0-1.fc19.src.rpm

Thanks,
Paulo