On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 16:26 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > One more aesthetic suggestion: I'd use hypens rather than underscores in > the RPM names. Most RPMs seem to do it that way, so it would obey the > principle of least surprise. Yeah - I see the - as indication of a subpackage though. That's what rpm does automatically with the %package tag - it puts the base name, a - , and then the package name. I suppose you are right though, because one spec file could be used for the ttf and postscript fonts, producing two distinct rpms. Since these fonts can't ever make it into a distributable repository w/o licensing change (I may query MathType and see if they can change their license - they allow re-distribution, but they include the windows installer as part of the term "Software" for which they do not allow dis-assembly, which is essentially what cabextract does). It looks like they already have made exception for the font needed by MathML. I used the version of makeself.sh that blackdown.org uses to package their java rpm's to create a .bin file that requires agreement to license to extract, I'm now working on a letter to send them asking if they would allow distribution in that form, since it keeps with the spirit of their windows font installer distribution. Of course, that would still prevent it from being installable through yum - but heh. Their fonts may be nice to have readily available for other apps.
