I have a couple of proposals which I wanted to sound out.
+ Would it be possible to run FEver (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/FEver) on a regular basis? Currently I get the feeling that it is run manually at irregular intervals, and since I depend heavily on it for tracking upstream releases this often means that a release is missed occasionally.
+ Would it be a good idea to have rpath related checks in Koji? Although I use "%__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot" in my ~/.rpmmacros, some rpath issues are only detected on x86_64 systems? Although I have a x86_64 desktop, it can be a bit problematic when a x86_64 system is not available. Such issues do not get detected during the Koji build resulting in violation of the packaging guidelines.
Comments?
Cheers, Debarshi
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:46:18 +0530 "Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
- Would it be a good idea to have rpath related checks in Koji?
Although I use "%__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot" in my ~/.rpmmacros, some rpath issues are only detected on x86_64 systems? Although I have a x86_64 desktop, it can be a bit problematic when a x86_64 system is not available. Such issues do not get detected during the Koji build resulting in violation of the packaging guidelines.
Comments?
I'm pretty sure rpath checking is done in koji, due to the macros we install in redhat-config-rpm.
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:22:56 -0500 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure rpath checking is done in koji, due to the macros we install in redhat-config-rpm.
Looks like I'm mistaken. There was discussion on this, but apparently it didn't happen.
Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:46:18 +0530 "Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
- Would it be a good idea to have rpath related checks in Koji?
Although I use "%__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot" in my ~/.rpmmacros, some rpath issues are only detected on x86_64 systems? Although I have a x86_64 desktop, it can be a bit problematic when a x86_64 system is not available. Such issues do not get detected during the Koji build resulting in violation of the packaging guidelines.
Comments?
+1
I'm pretty sure rpath checking is done in koji, due to the macros we install in redhat-config-rpm.
I don't believe so. We've been bitten by this recently. x86_64 builds will succeed in Koji but fail locally. This lead to the incorrect conclusion the problem was on the local machine because Koji builds are the gold standard reference thus the local machine had to have a problem. As we learned a few days ago the Koji build had the exact same rpath issue, however it wasn't flagged as a build error like it was locally. The red herring was an unfortunate waste of time because we were looking for the problem in the wrong place.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 1:16 PM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
I have a couple of proposals which I wanted to sound out.
- Would it be possible to run FEver
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/FEver) on a regular basis? Currently I get the feeling that it is run manually at irregular intervals, and since I depend heavily on it for tracking upstream releases this often means that a release is missed occasionally.
Anyone knows what's happening with FEver?
Thanks,
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Debarshi Ray -
Jesse Keating -
John Dennis -
Michel Salim