Add %sailfishos and %sailfishos_version to development environment

Platform Development
#1

As we can develop our applications in cross-platform way to accommodate different Linux distributions, it would be helpful to have few macros defined that could be used in RPM SPEC. In line with other RPM-based distros, such as Fedora and Suse, please add

  • %sailfishos equal to 1 or some other non-zero value
  • %sailfishos_version equal to the corresponding SFOS version: 3.4.0.24 for the latest

Please make them available in downloadable SDK and OBS.

This will make it possible to check whether the build is running for SFOS and its version.

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#2

Piggybacking on this, as a more general approach, support the %{dist}/%{?dist} macros and conditionals which is already well defined and widely used.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/DistTag/

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#3

There is %{_vendor} macro that has value “meego” for Sailfish OS, and for version there is version command.

%if "%{?_vendor}" == "meego"
%global sailfishos 1
%global sailfishos_version %(version | awk '{print $3}')
%endif

Kind of hacky, but it works.

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#4

“hacky” is a good word. Also, I would expect that will all these changes that “have to be done”, meego will disappear. While it would work, I would prefer to keep app SPEC clean from such macro definitions.

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#5

As some dependencies change with SFOS releases, having %sailfishos with the version info is requirement to support different SFOS versions in the software. Recent example:

pkgconfig(libsystemd-daemon)

was available before, not in SFOS 4.0 where it is replaced with

pkgconfig(libsystemd)

If I would have access to version info from RPM SPEC, it would be simple to adjust the dependencies accordingly. Now, not sure how to implement it now.

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#6

To determine the SFOS version, I used the “org.nemomobile.systemsettings 1.0” module
It also uses /usr/share/jolla-settings/pages/about/about.qml
But when posting the application to harbor.jolla.com got a rejection:

App rejected

… Unfortunately your update did not pass the StoreQA tests because of the following reason.

  1. RPM-validation has error:

QML files

ERROR [/usr/share/harbour-…/qml/harbour-…qml] Import ‘org.nemomobile.systemsettings 1.0’ is not allowed
INFO [harbour-…] Please see our FAQ here: FAQ
FAILED

Is there another way to find out the SFOS version?

#7

/etc/sailfish-release seems to contain the data you are after.

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#8

I use QSysInfo::productVersion() does the job

Full function:

QString QMLUtils::getOSVersion(){QString str = QSysInfo::productVersion().remove(3, 8);return str;}

To trim it down to a simple 3.4, 4.0 ect

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