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Bug 1015776 (Winetricks) - Review Request: winetricks - Easy way to work around problems in Wine
Summary: Review Request: winetricks - Easy way to work around problems in Wine
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: Winetricks
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-05 10:24 UTC by Mosaab Alzoubi
Modified: 2013-11-25 22:30 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-11-25 22:30:38 UTC
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Description Mosaab Alzoubi 2013-10-05 10:24:31 UTC 
Spec URL: http://helallinux.com/paste/show.php?id=1229
SRPM URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oji/files/srpms/winetricks-20130919-1.1.src.rpm
Description: 
Winetricks is a package manager for win32 dlls and applications on posix.
Features:
- Consists of a single shell script - no installation required
- Downloads packages automatically from original trusted sources
- Points out and works around known wine bugs automatically
- Both commandline and GUI operation
- Can install many packages in silent (unattended) mode
- Multiplatform; written for Linux, but supports MacOSX and Cygwin, too

Fedora Account System Username: moceap
Comment 1 Mosaab Alzoubi 2013-10-06 11:18:20 UTC 
Spec URL: http://helallinux.com/paste/show.php?id=1229&mode=raw
SRPM URL: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/projects/oji/srpms/winetricks-20130919-1.1.src.rpm
Description: 
Winetricks is a package manager for win32 dlls and applications on posix.
Features:
- Consists of a single shell script - no installation required
- Downloads packages automatically from original trusted sources
- Points out and works around known wine bugs automatically
- Both commandline and GUI operation
- Can install many packages in silent (unattended) mode
- Multiplatform; written for Linux, but supports MacOSX and Cygwin, too

Fedora Account System Username: moceap
Comment 2 Mosaab Alzoubi 2013-10-11 20:53:48 UTC 
After many revisions :)

Spec : http://ojuba.org/oji/SPECS/winetricks.spec
SRPM : http://ojuba.org/oji/SRPMS/winetricks-20130919-2.oji.fc19.src.rpm
Comment 3 T.C. Hollingsworth 2013-10-17 03:34:14 UTC 
Fedora Legal would prefer that this not be packaged for Fedora:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2013-January/002055.html
Comment 4 Mosaab Alzoubi 2013-10-18 04:33:13 UTC 
Thank you Tom, I think winetricks is so important not only for end-wine-users , also for professional ones.
Comment 5 Mosaab Alzoubi 2013-10-18 04:45:24 UTC 
Till final legal answer, fixing :)

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- To zero warnings by rpmlint.

Spec : http://ojuba.org/oji/SPECS/winetricks.spec
SRPM : http://ojuba.org/oji/SRPMS/winetricks-20130919-3.oji.fc19.src.rpm
Comment 6 Mosaab Alzoubi 2013-11-25 22:30:38 UTC 
Many of downloads by wine tricks are not free. CantFix by now Fedora rules.
Closed.
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