packaging April 2010

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Discrepancy/error in package review guidelines
by Jonathan Underwood 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hi, The second to last package review MUST guidelines is: MUST: At the beginning of %install, each package MUST run rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT). [24] There's two problems with this: the reference links to footnote 23, not 24, and in any case this guideline basically says this is unecessary anyway: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#All_patches_should_have… Cheers, Jonathan.

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Wrong update pushed to stable
by Rich Mattes 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi, I accidentally ended up with two versions of the "player" package in F13 updates-testing, that got pushed to stable in the same day (player-3.0.1-6.fc13 and player-3.0.1-7.fc13). It looks like only the -6 package landed in updates, but that package is broken due to a the geos soname change; -7 was the rebuild to fix that problem and should be the one in updates. Should I bump, rebuild and resubmit the package? Rich Mattes

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Building EPEL Packages
by Matthias Runge 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hi, just trying to do a scratch build of a fedora-package for EPEL 5. This fails, because MD5 sum does not match. Is there a known workaround for this? Is there a way to rebuild a Fedora-SRPM EPEL 5 conformant? DEBUG util.py:256: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /builddir/build/SOURCES/django-lint-0.13.tar.bz2;4bbc65bb: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch DEBUG util.py:319: Child returncode was: 1 Installing Fedora SRPMs on RHEL requires the --nomd5 option for rpm-command. Thanks, Matthias

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Songbird -> Nightingale
by Kamisamanou Burgess 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

There has been some discussion on the RedHat bugzilla about Songbird dropping Linux support. I am here to let you know that Tom "spot" Callaway may get his wishes. We have started a project called Nightingale( http://getnightingale.org ) that seeks to fix Songbird under Linux, primarily. We are still in the housekeeping phase of getting things moved over, created, etc. and I would like to know what are the problems preventing Nightingale(formerly Lyrebird, formerly Songbird) from being ready for Fedora other than the gstreamer issue? As far as the gstreamer issue is concerned, we want to use the distros gstreamer, which should fix that problem. -- Sayonara, Kamisamanou Burgess http://www.google.com/profiles/kamisamanou http://identi.ca/kamisamanou

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Packaging libraries
by Pau Garcia i Quiles 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello, I maintain several packages on Debian and I want to get started with RPM packaging. I. e. I am not a total newbie :-) I am now trying to package Wt ( http://webtoolkit.eu ) for Fedora. I already maintain this package in Debian ( http://packages.debian.org/libwt ). On Debian, package names are soversioned, so that it is possible to coinstall several versions of the runtime libraries. For instance, Wt 2.2.4 contained libwt.so.12 (which would had been[*] in package libwt12) and Wt 3.1.2 contains libwt.so.21 (which is in package libwt21). This is useful in case you have a library libX and have an application app1 which depends on Wt 2.2.4 (i. e. libwt.so.12) and another application, app2, which depends on Wt 3.1.2 (i. e. libwt.so.21). On Debian, this would be solved by installing packages libx5 and libx6. Keep in mind porting from Wt 2.2.4 to Wt 3.1.2 requires rewriting code, therefore unless the Wt packages are versioned on Fedora, it would be impossible to coinstall app1 and app2 on Fedora (on Debian it would be as simple as coinstalling libwt12 and libwt21). I wonder how Fedora deals with this issue. I have seen nothing in the packaging guidelines ( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines ) or the RPM guide ( http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ ), and I cannot find a specific guide for library packaging (something like http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html for Debian) [*] When I first packaged Wt for Debian, I did the horrible mistake of not versioning package names. This required transitional packages, which I will have to maintain until 2015 (!!!) because the old Wt 2.2.4 is what Canonical is shipping with Ubuntu Lucid. I'd rather not make the same mistake again :-) Thank you. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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Update on packages violating the Static Library guidelines
by Michael Schwendt 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

* A dozen packages fixed since February. * 23 packages left to be fixed. * To the remaining tickets I've added comments about whether anything in the package collection links static with a library. I've experimented with tools that examine koji build.log output in addition to verifying the existence of SONAME dependencies in the builds. In some cases, this has lead to finding packages which don't produce verbose build.log output, however (because of not using Fedora's CMake invocation or because of silencing Make or the compiler), e.g. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556079#c1 * Bugzilla status for packages violating the Static Library guidelines: http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/staticbugstat.html acl 556036 -> CLOSED atlas 556037 -> CLOSED attr 556038 -> CLOSED audit 556039 -> CLOSED binutils 556040 -> CLOSED brltty 556041 Canna 556034 -> CLOSED cdparanoia 547682 -> CLOSED comedilib 556043 dnssec-tools 556044 e2fsprogs 545144 -> CLOSED expat 556046 -> CLOSED fftw2 556047 file 556048 -> CLOSED gcc 556049 gdbm 556050 -> CLOSED ghostscript 556051 -> CLOSED gnutls 556052 -> CLOSED gpsim 556053 -> CLOSED gtk+extra 556054 -> CLOSED hpic 556055 -> CLOSED isdn4k-utils 556056 js 556057 -> CLOSED ldns 556058 -> CLOSED libaio 556059 -> CLOSED libannodex 556060 -> CLOSED libbtctl 556061 -> CLOSED libcaca 556062 libcddb 556063 -> CLOSED libcdio 556064 -> CLOSED libcmml 556065 libdnet 556066 -> CLOSED libevent 556067 libftdi 556068 -> CLOSED libnl 556069 liboggz 556070 -> CLOSED libotr 556071 librx 556072 -> CLOSED libsemanage 556073 -> CLOSED libsndfile 556074 libstatgrab 556075 -> CLOSED libtranslate 556076 -> CLOSED libtwin 556077 libuninameslist 556078 -> CLOSED libxslt 556079 link-grammar 556080 linux-atm 556081 linuxwacom 556082 -> CLOSED lockdev 556083 -> CLOSED meanwhile 556084 -> CLOSED mpich2 545149 -> CLOSED munipack 556086 nfs-utils-lib 556087 numactl 556088 -> CLOSED opencdk 556089 -> CLOSED openldap 556090 -> CLOSED proj 556091 -> CLOSED python 556092 -> CLOSED QuantLib 556035 -> CLOSED rubberband 556093 shapelib 556094 -> CLOSED syck 556095 -> CLOSED sysfsutils 556096 -> CLOSED texlive 556097 -> CLOSED torque 556098 util-vserver 556099 xbsql 556100 -> CLOSED xen 556101 xfsprogs 556102 -> CLOSED xmlsec1 556103 xqilla 562566 -> CLOSED

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