packaging May 2013

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Do we need to add %{_isa} flag?
by Christopher Meng 18 May '13

18 May '13

Hi, I don't know if RPM can handle the architecture-specific requires smartly. Now I have a review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959029 In fact I've seen many packages without this flag and I don't know if I still need to add it now. Thanks. *Yours sincerely,* *Christopher Meng* Always playing in Fedora Project http://cicku.me

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scriptlets exit status documentation change
by Chris Cheney 17 May '13

17 May '13

Currently the documentation for scriptlets says that the exit status should be 0 otherwise it will break installs/upgrades/erases. However on newer versions of rpm this doesn't actually happen, instead rpm ignores the exit status of scriptlets and continues to install packages and returns an exit status 0 from rpm. Previous versions of rpm returned an error exit code if a scriptlet failed but this no longer happens. I think the documentation should probably be rewritten such that it states more clearly that the exit status of scriptlets MUST be 0 and that if one fails rpm will essentially ignore the failure. Chris --- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets "Except in some really exceptional cases (if any), we want all scriptlets to exit with the zero exit status. Because rpm in its default configuration does not at the moment execute shell scriptlets with the -e argument to the shell, excluding explicit exit calls (frowned upon with a non-zero argument!), the exit status of the last command in a scriptlet determines its exit status. Most commands in the snippets in this document have a "|| :" appended to them, which is a generic trick to force the zero exit status for those commands whether they worked or not. Usually the most important bit is to apply this to the last command executed in a scriptlet, or to add a separate command such as plain ":" or "exit 0" as the last one in a scriptlet. Note that depending on the case, other error checking/prevention measures may be more appropriate, as well as running some commands only if we saw a previous command in the scriptlet which is a must prerequisite to succeed. Non-zero exit codes from scriptlets break installs/upgrades/erases so that no further actions will be taken for that package in a transaction (see scriptlet ordering below), which may for example prevent an old version of a package from being erased on upgrades, leaving behind duplicate rpmdb entries and possibly stale, unowned files on the filesystem. There are some cases where letting the transaction to proceed when some things in scriptlets failed may result in partially broken setup. It is however often limited to that package only whereas letting a transaction to proceed with some packages dropped out on the fly is more likely to result in broader system wide problems."

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Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2013-05-16 16:00 - 17:50 UTC)
by James Antill 16 May '13

16 May '13

============================================= #fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Packaging Committee ============================================= Meeting started by spot at 16:00:27 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-05-16/fpc.2013-05-16… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (spot, 16:01:25) * Bundling exception for agg in mapnik - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/279 (spot, 16:06:24) * Permissions on Files and Directories - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/286 (spot, 16:07:53) * ACTION: abadger1999's simplified draft (http://www.fpaste.org/12580/13687220/) approved (+1:8, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 16:38:06) * Bundling exception for agg in mapnik - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/279 (spot, 16:39:49) * Bundling exception request for sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/287 (spot, 16:47:29) * ACTION: Exception granted (+1:6, 0:0, -1:2) (spot, 17:04:31) * Octave Provides Filtering - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/290 (spot, 17:05:45) * ACTION: Draft Approved (+1:8, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 17:09:20) * copylib: mt19937ar.c - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/291 (spot, 17:09:38) * ACTION: Exception approved as a copylib (+1:8 0:0 -1:0) (spot, 17:13:14) * Request for permission for usage of autogenerated sources - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/289 (spot, 17:13:54) * glassfish-jaxb-api and OpenJDK - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/292 (spot, 17:29:14) * ACTION: Exception for openjdk to bundle JAXP and JAX-WS is granted (glassfish does not need one) (+1:7, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 17:49:27) Meeting ended at 17:50:12 UTC. Action Items ------------ * abadger1999's simplified draft (http://www.fpaste.org/12580/13687220/) approved (+1:8, 0:0, -1:0) * Exception granted (+1:6, 0:0, -1:2) * Draft Approved (+1:8, 0:0, -1:0) * Exception approved as a copylib (+1:8 0:0 -1:0) * Exception for openjdk to bundle JAXP and JAX-WS is granted (glassfish does not need one) (+1:7, 0:0, -1:0) Action Items, by person ----------------------- * abadger1999 * abadger1999's simplified draft (http://www.fpaste.org/12580/13687220/) approved (+1:8, 0:0, -1:0) * **UNASSIGNED** * Exception granted (+1:6, 0:0, -1:2) * Draft Approved (+1:8, 0:0, -1:0) * Exception approved as a copylib (+1:8 0:0 -1:0) * Exception for openjdk to bundle JAXP and JAX-WS is granted (glassfish does not need one) (+1:7, 0:0, -1:0) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * spot (145) * tibbs|w (76) * abadger1999 (53) * geppetto (47) * limburgher (45) * Rathann (29) * racor (13) * RemiFedora (13) * Smoother1rOgZ (9) * nirik (4) * rdieter (4) * zodbot (4) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2013-05-16 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 15 May '13

15 May '13

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2013-05-16 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. rktime): 2013-05-16 09:00 Thu US/Pacific 2013-05-16 12:00 Thu US/Eastern 2013-05-16 16:00 Thu UTC <- 2013-05-16 17:00 Thu Europe/London 2013-05-16 18:00 Thu Europe/Paris 2013-05-16 18:00 Thu Europe/Berlin 2013-05-16 21:30 Thu Asia/Calcutta ------------------new day---------------------- 2013-05-17 00:00 Fri Asia/Singapore 2013-05-17 00:00 Fri Asia/Hong_Kong 2013-05-17 01:00 Fri Asia/Tokyo 2013-05-17 02:00 Fri Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/report/12 = Followups = #topic #279 Bundling exception for agg in mapnik .fpc 279 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/279 = New business = #topic #286 permission on files and directories .fpc 286 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/286 #topic #287 Bundling exception request for sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw .fpc 287 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/287 #topic #289 Request for permission for usage of autogenerated sources .fpc 289 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/289 #topic #290 Octave provides filtering .fpc 290 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/290 #topic #291 copylib: mt19937ar.c .fpc 291 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/291 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/report/12 If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can reply to this e-mail, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fpc, e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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queries about merging 2 packages
by Gerard Ryan 13 May '13

13 May '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi packaging, I've got two packages which should be one. The reason they were two before was because of some strange circular dependencies, iirc. This doesn't apply anymore since the upstream project have moved from CVS to Git, and seem to have moved some things between some of their subproject repositories to fix the circular dependency problem. So, the package that I want to drop hasn't been built for Rawhide or F19 yet, and I don't think it should be. I haven't updated the main package to merge in the split one yet (it's ready, just waiting for broken deps). My questions are mainly about what steps do I need to do to do this as cleanly as possible: - - Do I need to manually put in any 'Obsoletes' or 'Provides' or anything like that? Nothing else uses the split package apart from a couple of my other packages, which I will remove (Build)Requires from. - - Since it hasn't been built in F19 yet, is there anything I need to do to other than retire it in pkgdb? I've never dropped or retired any packages so I'm not sure of the steps that need to be done. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Gerard. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRjs3dAAoJEG7cfkpivEoVCUkQAIwAeayZh3VRoHaJ08Tq/FAb 58Jx+1WE85RKR7qVUWGOleBoQ/upKc921tBtHz+ewX6F+Bs7PIKcQ/ljambhj2p1 R5yN8Oit2LdkJ9qGDa758vUubK+UfVuKUTPKVK+yOetr2+i/29VCRvUVEnMOFoM0 GOuPh5wagjEY+Wd1P+cTtwMMJxnx67/UMqnlNthRffUFKvHKYD6uoI8m+WQNhQWH PjDw2pdt/DkouznOSz64Wb2R3uUzfeI5+gHGADOxxkWdek9NCC1GVL23jA587EIc IL6T2vOtr6bParcic7exWgjkxlYd7Z4YZsvmPYrp0IszGQh3weO3dowTsXZtBFTB XfBhC7nGby1JG+L5VwLDpPEI4OVaecxyeRNhFly0bspX0UI+bI6jqJKX2188WDYW HZPfE6BOdwlbKVpEoxW0+NAPesjSqkA0+3JwW3aENb1Uv9fDkv8RUlpWao5hwCar CNwQtwantBEdE2EpvgrWrPnqkazd+VZJMkeXx403zYo0hRHwNQydrvb5pxZKznSC atAUyImUhLOqpfUwKB5o0jhZbeOC9ClhkMTeq47mSphbACng6GhTis2ShqCtMvom 6G9nfa3029F+L88SgwHQLHSn42aZwVSPfZzpgM2ZW59joTpMZmpnJONaH/9LKALV mEYM/kd70ZtE9iK+TAQV =G5qS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Using autogenerated sources
by Susi Lehtola 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi, I've just introduced libint2 into Fedora. It is a package that contains a) a compiler for generating the source code for an optimized library b) the generated library itself which is used by end users I'd like to get branches for the package for EPEL5 and EPEL6 as well, but the problem is that building the compiler needs C++11 support, which is not available in EPEL. Is it OK if I do step a) locally and use the pregenerated sources for the EPEL branches? The Fedora branches would still do the whole bootstrap process. -- Susi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org

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Open Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee
by Tom Callaway 09 May '13

09 May '13

The Fedora Packaging Committee has one open seat and is accepting submissions from interested candidates to serve on the FPC. The FPC would like to thank Rex Dieter for his service, as he is stepping down after several years. This position involves not only reviewing Packaging Guideline drafts submitted to the FPC for consideration, but also rewriting drafts (sometimes from scratch) to resolve the issue in a more acceptable fashion. Additionally, the FPC reviews bundling exceptions (and UID/GID soft static assignment). The FPC meets on IRC weekly, Wednesdays at 1600 UTC, for approximately an hour. FPC members serve for as long as they are willing, there are currently no term limits. All decisions are voted on using a +1 (for), 0 (abstain), and -1 (against) mechanism, and all decisions must be approved by a majority (+5). FPC Meetings do not happen if quorum (5) is not present. Candidates who are interested should provide the following details to the FPC for consideration, by emailing it directly to me (tcallawa(a)redhat.com). The FPC will consider all candidates, but strongly prefers candidates who have extensive experience packaging in Fedora. We will accept applications for the next week (deadline Wednesday Apr 24, 2013). Name: FAS Account: Provenpackager? (Yes/No): Main area of packaging interest/expertise: Reason(s) for wanting to join the FPC: Thanks in advance, ~tom == Fedora Project

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Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2013-05-09 16:00 - 17:05 UTC)
by James Antill 09 May '13

09 May '13

============================================= #fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Packaging Committee ============================================= Meeting started by spot at 16:03:10 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2013-05-09/fpc.2013-05-09… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll Call (spot, 16:03:17) * Bundling exception for agg in mapnik - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/279 (spot, 16:09:03) * ACTION: Asked clarifying questions (spot, 16:16:20) * New Python Macros for Easier Packaging - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/281 (spot, 16:16:32) * ACTION: %python_default_filter approved - (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 16:19:48) * Bundling exception for gpick (lua) - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/282 (spot, 16:20:30) * ACTION: Bundling exception denied, spot is going to update lua in rawhide (+1:0, 0:0, -1:6) (spot, 16:25:42) * Specify that systemd .service .socket .timer, should not be marked executable - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/283 (spot, 16:26:22) * ACTION: rpmlint check fine, guidelines change no (+1:7, 0:0, -1:0) (spot, 16:36:56) * github source URL: improved tarball names - https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/284 (spot, 16:37:18) * ACTION: url recommendation changed to $PROJECT-%{commit}.tar.gz (+1:5, 0:2, -1:0) (spot, 17:01:02) * Thanks rdieter (spot, 17:01:53) * Open Floor (spot, 17:03:10) Meeting ended at 17:07:08 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Asked clarifying questions * %python_default_filter approved - (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) * Bundling exception denied, spot is going to update lua in rawhide (+1:0, 0:0, -1:6) * rpmlint check fine, guidelines change no (+1:7, 0:0, -1:0) * url recommendation changed to $PROJECT-%{commit}.tar.gz (+1:5, 0:2, -1:0) Action Items, by person ----------------------- * spot * Bundling exception denied, spot is going to update lua in rawhide (+1:0, 0:0, -1:6) * **UNASSIGNED** * Asked clarifying questions * %python_default_filter approved - (+1:5, 0:0, -1:0) * rpmlint check fine, guidelines change no (+1:7, 0:0, -1:0) * url recommendation changed to $PROJECT-%{commit}.tar.gz (+1:5, 0:2, -1:0) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * spot (74) * abadger1999 (29) * limburgher (27) * Rathann (14) * geppetto (13) * SmootherFrOgZ (12) * rdieter (12) * smani (8) * zodbot (3) * misc (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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Bundled text-based .afm font files
by Josef Stribny 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi all, I would like to package rubygem-prawn (PDF generator) [1, 2] for Fedora, but I am unsure about the font files that are bundled in the .gem file. There are many .afm font files which seem not to be considered as font files according to the guidelines [3] as Miroslav in the review [2] already pointed out. Is this true and is it then fine to package them normally as any other files? Or is there a special approach of bundling/packaging text-based font files like .afm? I opened an upstream issue regarding their licensing [4] and it seems to be fine for .afm files they ship (given that we include the corresponding "MustRead.html" license file). Overall I am trying to find out how to not ship them at all, but the question still remains: how to properly package text-based fonts? Thanks Josef [1] https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883437 [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_%28FAQ%29#What_is_a_… [4] https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn/issues/474

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Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2013-05-09 16:00 UTC)
by James Antill 08 May '13

08 May '13

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC meeting Thursday at 2013-05-09 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. Local time information (via. rktime): 2013-05-09 09:00 Thu US/Pacific 2013-05-09 12:00 Thu US/Eastern 2013-05-09 16:00 Thu UTC <- 2013-05-09 17:00 Thu Europe/London 2013-05-09 18:00 Thu Europe/Paris 2013-05-09 18:00 Thu Europe/Berlin 2013-05-09 21:30 Thu Asia/Calcutta ------------------new day---------------------- 2013-05-10 00:00 Fri Asia/Singapore 2013-05-10 00:00 Fri Asia/Hong_Kong 2013-05-10 01:00 Fri Asia/Tokyo 2013-05-10 02:00 Fri Australia/Brisbane Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/report/12 = New business = #topic #279 Bundling exception for agg in mapnik .fpc 279 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/279 #topic #281 New Python Macros for Easier Packaging .fpc 281 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/281 #topic #282 Bundling exception request for gpick, about lua .fpc 282 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/282 #topic #283 specify that systemd .service, .socket, .timer, … should not be marked executable .fpc 283 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/283 #topic #284 github source URL: improved tarball names .fpc 284 https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/284 = Open Floor = For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The report of the agenda items can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/report/12 If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can reply to this e-mail, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fpc, e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until the following meeting.

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