F36 Change: Enable exclude_from_weak_autodetect by default in LIBDNF
(System-Wide Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ExcludeFromWeakAutodetect
== Summary ==
exclude_from_weak_autodetect enables autodetection of unmet weak
dependencies (Recommends or Supplements) of installed packages and
blocks installation of packages satisfying already unmet dependencies.
In other words: When you don't have the recommended package installed,
it won't be automatically installed with future upgrades of the
recommending package.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:jmracek| Jaroslav Mracek]]
* Email: jmracek(a)redhat.com
== Detailed Description ==
The feature is designed to prevent an install of removed weak
dependencies from the system by users and to not install weak
dependencies missing after system deployment. It will change the
behavior of DNF, microdnf, and PackageKit. The feature will be
backported to all Fedoras, but in default, the feature will be off.
Additional information: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699672
The default value for exclude_from_weak_autodetect configuration can
be overridden in `/etc/dnf/dnf.conf`
== Feedback ==
The feature was requested by [[User:Churchyard|Miro Hrončok]] and
supported by many others: See
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699672 rhbz#1699672] for
more feedback.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
After the installation of a fresh system, the first upgrade will not
install a lot of weak dependencies. Some of them were excluded from
the kick-start installation set for good reasons (security, image
size, minimal functional set, ...), but after the first update, all
weak dependencies are installed, therefore some features of deployment
simply disappear.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** The feature is ready in Pull Request -
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/1279
** PRs only wait for a release of libsolv
** The Feature will be enabled in upstream as default, therefore from
Fedora 36, we start to release libdnf without a revert patch of
default in comparison to upstream.
* Other developers: The change requires a new release of libsolv.
* Release engineering:
* Policies and guidelines: A packaging guideline should be added that
discourages or forbids weak dependencies on fully versioned
(sub)packages (see
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699672#c44 the
details]).
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Alignment with Objectives:
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
No manual changes will be required. After the libdnf update, this
feature will be on by default.
== How To Test ==
1. Install package without satisfied weak dependencies
2. Upgrade the upgrade. With exclude_from_weak_autodetect=true, it
will not install weak dependencies of already installed packages. With
exclude_from_weak_autodetect=false, weak dependencies will be
installed during upgrades.
== User Experience ==
The change in default will help to keep some values for particular
deployments (a minimal system will be still minimal without disabling
weak dependencies).
Users will be able to remove particular weak dependencies and they
will be not installed on the first upgrade.
In case when the feature will not work according to the user
expectation it can be switched off in the dnf configuration file.
== Dependencies ==
libsolv - Required code changes are already in the libsolv upstream.
We only wait for the next libsolv release.
== Contingency Plan ==
There are no external dependencies, therefore we can easily postpone
the feature and the change of default behavior.
* Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?)
* Contingency deadline: beta freeze
* Blocks release? No
== Documentation ==
The feature will be documented in dnf man pages.
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
2 years, 2 months
what is wrong with this conditional scriplet on rpm.spec
by Sérgio Basto
Hi,
I just notice build in mock or koji this scriptlet [1] on a build for
Fedora gives me "is rhel 8 or 9" , what I'm missing ?
Thank you
[1]
%if ! 0%{?rhel} >= 8
echo "is not rhel >= 8"
%else
echo "is rhel 8 or 9"
%endif
--
Sérgio M. B.
2 years, 2 months
Announcing LLVM Snapshot Packages for Fedora Linux
by Konrad Kleine
Dear Fedora packagers, developers and users,
we have some good news for you:
We are beginning to build nightly snapshot packages of LLVM for the latest
versions of Fedora Linux (currently 34, 35 and rawhide) for a growing list
of
architectures.
You can grab them here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/fedora-llvm-team/llvm-snapshots/
Feel free to enable the copr repository with
$ dnf copr enable @fedora-llvm-team/llvm-snapshots
and then install the i.e. latest clang with
$ dnf install clang
Beware, that a snapshot release of LLVM is probably more unstable than a
regular release! If you run into a problem, I would kindly ask you to wait
and try it again with the next snapshot.
We hope you enjoy this peek into the next version of LLVM that you can now
try without too much hassle and without compiling it every day on your own.
Regards,
Konrad Kleine
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Tools
Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>
kkleine(a)redhat.com
M: +49(0)151/21000244
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<https://www.redhat.com>
2 years, 2 months
F36 Change: Package information on ELF objects (System-Wide Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Package_information_on_ELF_objects
== Summary ==
All binaries (executables and shared libraries) are annotated with an
ELF note that identifies the rpm for which this file was built. This
allows binaries to be identified when they are distributed without any
of the rpm metadata. `systemd-coredump` uses this to log package
versions when reporting crashes.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Zbyszek|Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]]
* Email: zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl
* Name: Lennart Poettering
* Email: mzsrqben(a)0pointer.net
== Detailed Description ==
People mix binaries (programs and libraries) from different
distributions (for example using Fedora containers on Debian or vice
versa), and distribute binaries without packaging metadata (for
example by stripping everything except the binary from a container
image, also removing `/usr/lib/.build-id/*`), compile their own rpm
packages (for internal distribution and installation), and compile and
distribute their own binaries. Sometimes we need to introspect a
binary and figure out its provenance, for example when a program
crashes and we are looking at a core dump, but also when we have a
binary without the packaging metadata. When the need to introspect a
binary arises, we have some very good mechanisms to show the
provenance: when a file is installed through the package manager we
can directly list the providing package, but even without this we can
use build-ids embedded in the binary to uniquely identify the
originating build. But those mechanisms work best when we're in the
realm of a single distribution. In particular, build-ids can be easily
tied to a source rpm, but only when we have the source rpm is part of
the distribution and the build-id was registered in the appropriate
database which maps build-ids to real package names. When we move
outside of the realm of a single distribution, it can be hard to
figure out where a given binary originates from. If we know that a
binary is from a given distribution, we may be able to use some
distro-specific mechanism to figure out this information. But those
mechanisms will be different for different distributions and will
often require network access. With this change we aim to provide a
mechanism that is is very simple, provides a "human-readable" origin
information without further processing, is portable across distros,
and works without network access.
The directly motivating use case is display of core dumps. Right now
we have build-ids, but those are just opaque hexadecimal numbers that
are not meaningful to users. We would like to immediately list
versions of packages involved in the crash (including both the program
and any libraries it links to). It is not enough to query the rpm
database to do the equivalent of `rpm -qf …`: very often programs
crash after some packages have been upgraded and the binaries loaded
into memory are not the binaries that are currently present on disk,
or when through some mishap, the binaries on disk do not match the
installed rpms. A mechanism that works without rpm database lookup or
network access allows this information to be showed immediately in
`coredumpctl` listings and journal entries about the crash. This
includes crashes that happen in the initrd and sandboxed containers.
A second motivating use case is when users distribute their own
binaries and would like to collect crash information. Build-ids are a
solution that is technically possible, but easy to get wrong in
practice: users would need to immediately record the build-id after
the build and store the mapping to program names, versions, and build
number in some database. It's much easier to be able to record
something during the build in the build product itself.
A third motivating use case is the general mixing of Fedora binaries
with programs and libraries from different distributions, both with
our binaries being used as the base for foreign binaries, and the
other way around. Whilst most distributions provide some mechanism to
figure out the source build information, those mechanisms vary by
distribution and may not be easy to access from a "foreign" system.
Such mixing is expected with containers, flatpaks, snaps, Python
binary wheels, anaconda packages, and quite often when somebody
compiles a binary and puts it up on the web for other people to
download.
We propose a new mechanism which is designed to be very simple but
extensible: a small JSON document is embedded in an section in the ELF
binary. This document can be easily read by a human if necessary, but
it is also well-defined and can be processed programatically. For
example, `systemd-coredump` will immediately make use of this to
display package ''nevra'' information for crashes. The format is also
easy to generate, so it can be added to any build system, either using
the helpers that we provide or even reimplemented from scratch.
For the case where we mix binaries from different distros (the third
motivating use case above), this approach is the most useful when this
system is used by all distros and even non-distro builds. The more
widely it is used, the more useful it becomes. The specification was
developed in collaboration with Debian developers, and we hope that
Fedora and Debian will lead the way for this to become as widely used
as build-ids. But even if the information is only available from some
distros, it is still useful, except that fallback mechanisms need to
be implemented.
=== Existing system: `.note.gnu.build-id` ===
We already have build-ids: every ELF object has a `.note.gnu.build-id`
note, and given a core file, we can read the build-id and look it up
in the rpm database (`dnf repoquery --whatprovides debuginfo(build-id)
= …`) to map it to a package name.
Build-ids are unique and compact and very generic and work as expected
in general. But they have some downsides:
* build-ids are not very informative for users. Before the build-id is
converted back to the appropriate package, it's completely opaque.
* build-ids require a working rpm database or an internet connection
to map to the package name.
Three important cases:
* minimal containers: the rpm database is not installed in the
containers. The information about build-ids needs to be stored
externally, so package name information is not available immediately,
but only after offline processing. The new note doesn't depend on the
rpm db in any way.
* handling of a core from a container, where the container and host
have different distros
* self-built and external packages: unless a lot of care is taken to
keep access to the debuginfo packages, this information may be lost.
The new note is available even if the repository metadata gets lost.
Users can easily provide equivalent information in a format that makes
sense in their own environment. It should work even when rpms and debs
and other formats are mixed, e.g. during container image creation.
=== New system: `.note.package` ===
The new note is created and propagated similarly to
`.note.gnu.build-id`. The difference is that we inject the information
about package ''nevra'' from the build system.
The implementation is very simple: `%{build_ldflags}` are extended
with a command to insert a custom note as a separate section in an ELF
object. See [https://github.com/systemd/package-notes/blob/main/hello.spec
hello.spec] for an example. This is done in the default macros, so all
packages that use the prescribed link flags will be affected.
The note is a compact json string. This allows the format to be
trivially extensible (new fields can be added at will), easy to
process (json is extremely popular and parsers are widely available).
Using a single field rather than a set of separated notes is more
space-efficient. With multiple fields the padding and alignment
requirements cause unnecessary overhead.
The system was designed with cross-distro collaboration and is
flexible enough to identify binaries from different packaging formats
and build systems (rpms, debs, custom binaries).
See https://systemd.io/COREDUMP_PACKAGE_METADATA/ for detailed
description of the format.
One of the advantages of using an ELF note, as opposed to say a series
of extended attributes on the binary itself, is that the ELF note gets
automatically captured and copied into a core file by the kernel.
Extended attributes would have to be copied manually, which might not
even be possible because the binary on disk may have been removed by
the time the crash is analyzed.
The overhead is about 200 bytes for each ELF object.
We have about overall 33200 files in `/usr/s?bin/` and about 36600
`.so` files (F35, single architecture,
results from `dnf repoquery -l 2>/dev/null | rg '^/usr/s?bin/' | sort
-u | wc -l`,
`dnf repoquery -l 2>/dev/null | rg '^/usr/lib64/.*\.so$' |sort -u|wc -l`).
If we do this for the whole distro, we get 69800 × 200 = 13 MB.
For a typical installation, we can expect about 300–400 kB.
Thus the overhead of additionally used space is neglible (also see the
Feedback section for more discussion).
Precise measurements TBD once this is turned on and we have real
measurements for a larger number of builds.
=== Examples ===
<pre>
$ objdump -s -j .note.package build/libhello.so
build/libhello.so: file format elf64-x86-64
Contents of section .note.package:
02ec 04000000 63000000 7e1afeca 46444f00 ....c...~...FDO.
02fc 7b227479 7065223a 2272706d 222c226e {"type":"rpm","n
030c 616d6522 3a226865 6c6c6f22 2c227665 ame":"hello","ve
031c 7273696f 6e223a22 302d312e 66633335 rsion":"0-1.fc35
032c 2e783836 5f363422 2c226f73 43706522 .x86_64","osCpe"
033c 3a226370 653a2f6f 3a666564 6f726170 :"cpe:/o:fedorap
034c 726f6a65 63743a66 65646f72 613a3333 roject:fedora:33
035c 227d0000 "}..
</pre>
<pre>
$ readelf --notes build/hello | grep "description data" | sed -e
"s/\s*description data: //g" -e "s/ //g" | xxd -p -r | jq
readelf: build/hello: Warning: Gap in build notes detected from 0x1091 to 0x10de
readelf: build/hello: Warning: Gap in build notes detected from 0x1091 to 0x10af
readelf: build/hello: Warning: Gap in build notes detected from 0x1091 to 0x119f
{
"type": "rpm",
"name": "hello",
"version": "0-1.fc35.x86_64",
"osCpe": "cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33"
}
</pre>
<pre>
$ coredumpctl info
PID: 44522 (fsverity)
...
Package: fsverity-utils/1.3-1
build-id: ac89bf7175b04d7eec7f6544a923f45be111f0be
Message: Process 44522 (fsverity) of user 1000 dumped core.
Found module
/home/bluca/git/fsverity-utils/libfsverity.so.0 with build-id:
fa40fdfb79aea84167c98ca8a89add9ac4f51069
Metadata for module
/home/bluca/git/fsverity-utils/libfsverity.so.0 owned by FDO found: {
"packageType" : "deb",
"package" : "fsverity-utils",
"packageVersion" : "1.3-1"
}
Found module linux-vdso.so.1 with build-id:
aba08e06103f725e26f1d7c178fb6b76a564a35d
Found module libpthread.so.0 with build-id:
e91114987a0147bd050addbd591eb8994b29f4b3
Found module libdl.so.2 with build-id:
d3583c742dd47aaa860c5ae0c0c5bdbcd2d54f61
Found module ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 with build-id:
f25dfd7b95be4ba386fd71080accae8c0732b711
Found module libcrypto.so.1.1 with build-id:
749142d5ee728a76e7cdc61fd79d2311a77405a2
Found module libc.so.6 with build-id:
18b9a9a8c523e5cfe5b5d946d605d09242f09798
Found module fsverity with build-id:
ac89bf7175b04d7eec7f6544a923f45be111f0be
Metadata for module fsverity owned by FDO found: {
"packageType" : "deb",
"package" : "fsverity-utils",
"packageVersion" : "1.3-1"
}
Stack trace of thread 44522:
#0 0x00007fe7c8af26f4 __GI___nanosleep (libc.so.6 + 0xc66f4)
#1 0x00007fe7c8af262a __sleep (libc.so.6 + 0xc662a)
#2 0x00005608481407dd main (fsverity + 0x27dd)
#3 0x00007fe7c8a5009b __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2409b)
#4 0x000056084814094a _start (fsverity + 0x294a)
</pre>
== Feedback ==
See [https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18433 systemd issue
#18433] for upstream discussion and implementation proposals.
=== Concerns about additional changes to files ===
<pre>
17:32:30 <Eighth_Doctor> I think zbyszek underestimates how much of a
problem it is to stamp every ELF binary with ''nevra'' data
17:32:44 <mhroncok> zbyszek: so, assuming python has ~100 ELF .so
files and I change one text file
17:33:22 <mhroncok> (ignore for the time being that the .so files
often changed because of toolchain updates and assume they are stable)
</pre>
I tested this with python3.10. So far there are 13 builds of that
package in F35:
`python3.10-3.10.0-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~a6-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~a6-2.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~a7-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b1-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b2-2.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b2-3.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b3-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b4-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b4-2.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~b4-3.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~rc1-1.fc35`,
`python3.10-3.10.0~rc2-1.fc35`.
I extracted the builds (for `.x86_64`) and made a list of all `.so`
files (1368 files), and calculated sha256 hashes for them. No two
files repeat, there are 1368 distinct hashes. So the files are
'''already''' different between builds and the additional proposed
metadata does will not make a significant difference.
Note that this range of Python versions encompasses periods when the
package is under development and undergoes significant changes (alpha
versions), and when it's only undergoing small changes (rc versions).
The fact that we get different files in each build is not surprising,
because files embed build-ids which differ between builds. But even if
we ignore those, binaries generally differ between builds. Even sizes
tend to vary between builds: there are 636 distinct `.so` file sizes,
i.e. on average any given size only repeats twice (presumably most
often for the same file). Running `diffoscope` on `.so` files from
different builds shows minor changes in the assembly which I did not
analyze futher.
If people have specific questions, for example about overhead in some
scenario, I'd be happy to answer them. Until now, the issues that were
raised were very vague, so it's impossible to answer them.
=== Why not just use the rpm database? ===
<pre>
17:34:33 <dcantrell> The main reason for this appears to be that we
need the RPM db locally to resolve build-ids to package names. But
since containers wipe /var/lib/rpm, we can't do that. So the solution
is to put the ''nevra'' in ELF metadata?
17:34:39 <dcantrell> That feels like the wrong approach.
</pre>
First, there are legitimate reasons to strip packaging metadata from
images. For example, for an initrd image from rpms, I get 117 MB of
files (without compression), and out of this `/var/lib/rpm` is 5.9 MB,
and `/var/lib/dnf` is 4.2 MB. This is an overhead of 9%. This is ''not
much'', but still too much to keep in the image unless necessary.
Similar ratios will happen for containers of similar size. Reducing
image size by one tenth is important. There is no `rpm` or `dnf` in
the image, to the package database is not even usable without external
tools.
As discussed on IRC
(https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2021-05-11-17.01.log....),
the containers ''we'' build don't wipe this metadata, but custom
Dockerfiles do that.
Second, as described in Description section above, not everybody and
everything uses rpm. The Fedora motto is "we make an operating system
and we make it easy for you to do useful stuff with it" (and yes, this
is an actual quote from the official docs), and this stuff involves
reusing our binaries in containers and custom installations and
whatnot, not just straightforward installations with `dnf`. And in the
other direction, people will build their own binaries that are not
packaged as rpms. But it is still important to be able to figure out
the exact version of a binary, especially after it crashes.
=== Why do this in Fedora? ===
<pre>
17:36:49 <mhroncok> I don't understand how non-rpm distros and custom
built binaries are affected by our rpm-build environment :/
</pre>
The idea is that we inject this into our build system, and Debian
injects this into their build system, and so on… As mentioned, this is
a cross-distro effort. Also, people can use it in their custom build
systems if they build and distribute binaries internally. The scheme
would obviously be most useful if used comprehensively, but it's still
useful when available partially. We hope that Fedora can lead the way.
(This is similar to build-ids: when initially adopted, they were used
only by some distros, but were useful even then. Nowadays, with
comprehensive adoption, they are even more useful.)
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/ contains a nice
description of a pathological case of packaging hacks and binary
redistribution. When trying to unravel something like this,
information embedded directly in the binaries would be quite useful.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
A simple and reliable way to gather information about package versions
of programs is added.
It enhances, instead of replacing, the existing mechanisms.
It is particularly useful when reporting crash dumps, but can also be
used for image introspection and forensincs, license checks and
version scans on containers, etc.
If we adopt this in Fedora, Fedora leads the way on implementing the
standard. Fedora binaries used in any context can be easily
recognized. Fedora binaries provide a better basis to build things.
If other distros adopt this, we can introspect and report on those
binaries easily within the Fedora context. For example, when somebody
is using a container with some programs that originate in the Debian
ecosystem, we would be able to identify those programs without tools
like `apt` or `dpkg-query`. Core dump analaysis executed in the Fedora
host can easily provide useful information about programs from foreign
builds.
== Implementation in Other Distributions ==
=== Microsoft CBL-Mariner ===
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL-Mariner CBL-Mariner] is an
[https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner open source] Linux
distribution created by Microsoft, targeted at first-party and
container workloads on Azure. It is used both as a container runner
host and a base container image.
Mariner adopted the ELF stamping packaging metadata spec in
[https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/SPECS/mariner-rpm-macro...
version 1.0], initially to add OS metadata, and package-level metadata
will be added in a following release.
=== Debian ===
A package-level proof-of-concept is included in the
[https://github.com/systemd/package-notes/blob/main/dh_package_notes
package-notes] repository.
A [https://salsa.debian.org/bluca/debhelper/-/tree/notes_metadata
system-level proof-of-concept] that enables ELF stamping by default in
all builds implicitly will be proposed for adoption in the future.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** create a specification (First version DONE:
[https://systemd.io/COREDUMP_PACKAGE_METADATA
COREDUMP_PACKAGE_METADATA]. We might need to make some adjustments
based on the deployment in Fedora, but no big changes are expected.)
** write a script to generate the package note (First version DONE:
[https://github.com/systemd/package-notes/blob/main/generate-package-notes.py
generate-package-notes.py])
** provide a patch for `redhat-rpm-config` to insert appropriate
compilation options
** extend systemd's coredumpctl to extract and display this
information (DONE: [https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19135 PR
#19135], available in systemd-249)
** submit pull request to Packaging Guidelines
* Other developers:
** possibly add support in abrt?
* Release engineering: There should be no impact.
* Policies and guidelines:
The new flags should be mentioned in Packaging Guidelines.
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
N/A
* Alignment with Objectives:
It might be relevant for Minimization. Even though it increases the
image size a tiny bit, it makes minimized images work a bit better.
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
No impact.
== How To Test ==
<pre>
$ bash -c 'kill -SEGV $$'
$ coredumpctl
TIME PID UID GID SIG COREFILE EXE
SIZE PACKAGE
Mon 2021-03-01 14:37:22 CET 855151 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present
/usr/bin/bash 51.7K bash-5.1.0-2.fc34.x86_64
</pre>
== User Experience ==
`coredumpctl` should display information about package versions.
`readelf --notes` or similar tools can be used on `.so` files and
compiled programs
to extract the JSON blurb that describes the originating package.
== Dependencies ==
None.
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Remove the new compilation flags. Rebuild any
packages that were build with the new flags.
* Contingency deadline: Beta freeze.
* Blocks release? No.
== Documentation ==
* https://systemd.io/COREDUMP_PACKAGE_METADATA/
* https://github.com/systemd/package-notes
See also [[Changes/DebuginfodByDefault]].
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
2 years, 2 months
F36 Change: Plocate as the default locate implementation
(Self-Contained Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Plocate_as_the_default_locate_impl...
== Summary ==
The venerable `mlocate` program is replaced by `plocate` — a
compatible reimplementation that is faster and uses less disk space.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Zbyszek| Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]]
* Email: zbyszek at in.waw.pl
* Name: [[User:Msekleta| Michal Sekletár]]
* Email: msekleta at redhat.com
== Detailed Description ==
Plocate is a newer implementation of `locate`/`mlocate` that using
`liburing` and `libzstd` for speed.
The database it creates on disk is also smaller.
Debian recently switched to `plocate` as the default implementation
(https://lwn.net/Articles/846405/).
It doesn't seem useful to maintain multiple locate implementations.
Thus the new package Conflicts with the old one, so they cannot be
installed in parallel.
The plan is:
# F35: `plocate` is made available for testing
# F36: `mlocate` is replaced by `plocate` in comps
# F37 or F38: `mlocate` will be retired (or given away, if somebody
wants to pick it up)
== Benefit to Fedora ==
We save some cpu cycles and disk sectors by using a more modern
implementation of a common tool.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** package `mlocate` (Review bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1931141, DONE)
** submit a pull request to comps with `s/mlocate/plocate/`
* Other developers: install plocate locally and test if it works as
expected on F35 and other versions
* Release engineering: n/a
* Policies and guidelines: n/a
* Trademark approval: n/a
* Alignment with Objectives: none
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
The upgrade should be mostly invisible. It is possible that somebody
might be relying on some very specific `mlocate` behaviour or parsing
the `mlocate` database directly, but no such cases are currently
known.
== How To Test ==
# Install `plocate` (`sudo dnf install plocate --allowerasing`)
# Wait for `plocate-updatedb.service` to finish (`sudo systemctl start
plocate-updatedb.service`)
# Use `plocate pattern` or `plocate -r <regexp>` to search for files.
== User Experience ==
Users should not notice the difference. Installing `plocate`
automatically removes `mlocate`. The new implementation is generally
compatible with the old one in all common cases, and provides some
additional options.
== Dependencies ==
None.
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a
System Wide Change)
* Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Release Notes ==
`plocate` is now used as the default provider of `/usr/bin/locate`
instead of `mlocate`.
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
2 years, 2 months
Rawhide kernel crash
by edmond pilon
Has anyone tried the last kernel-5.15.0-60.fc36.
I have crashes at boot with this kernel since rc7 , with nvidia rpmfusion drivers .
I think it's because of this fedora patch : fedora: Disable fbdev drivers and use simpledrm instead .
I sent a bug report but still no answer .
2 years, 3 months
upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse
I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want
to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my
iso-mounted files, how do I do it?
i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc..
Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to
upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct
resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks.
Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use
apt-cdrom. Thanks.
With kind regards,
Didier.
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Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS)
5 Research Link,
Singapore 117603
Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\
didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg
Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg
2 years, 3 months
Self Introduction: Jan Baudisch
by Jan Baudisch
Hi,
I am a computer science student from Germany and have used Fedora for
at least 2 years by now.
Using COPR I gained some experience in buidling packages but recently I
wanted to try building packages conforming to the guidelines and
getting them into Fedora. My interest is mostly in Rust and that is why
I would like to contribute Rust packages. I already got started here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/janbaudisch/rust/packages
For now my main interest would be to get the Rocket framework packaged,
as many projects rely on it and on the way I discovered some key Rust
crates not packaged yet.
I feel like some of them are ready for submission and will file the
first review requests soon.
Looking forward to working on this!
Jan
2 years, 3 months
F36 Change: PostgreSQL 14 (Self-Contained Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PostgreSQL_14
== Summary ==
Update of PostgreSQL (`postgresql` and `libpq` components) in Fedora
from version 13 to version 14 in the non-modular (main) builds.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:fjanus| Filip Januš]]
* Email: fjanus(a)redhat.com
== Detailed Description ==
Update of PostgreSQL (`postgresql` and `libpq` components) in Fedora
from version 13 to version 14 in the non-modular (main) builds.
This also involves updating and rebuilding the PostgreSQL plugins that
depend on postgresql server.
=== Plan ===
* Prepare PostgreSQL 14 in Copr (By 2022-01-15)
* Rebuild important dependencies in Copr (By 2022-01-15)
* Debug and fix compatibility issues found in dependencies (a
reasonable amount of non-critical in FTBFS state might be tolerable)
* Prepare Pull requests in Rawhide
* Merge and build PR into Rawhide
== Feedback ==
<!-- Summarize the feedback from the community and address why you
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feedback, that is useful to note in this section as well. For
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== Benefit to Fedora ==
The latest stable software is used by Fedora users.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
<!-- What work do the feature owners have to accomplish to complete
the feature in time for release? Is it a large change affecting many
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those changes?-->
**Prepare PostgreSQL 14
**Prepare PostgreSQL 13 as a module for Rawhide
**Check software that requires or depends on `postgresql-server` or
`libpq` packages for incompatibilities
**Build PostgreSQL 14 (postgresql and libpq) to Rawhide
**Rebuild depended on packages against PostgreSQL 14
**Gather user input on the changes between PostgreSQL 13 and PostgreSQL 14
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issues #Releng issue number]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
The PostgreSQL client library (libpq component) is compatible. So,
there shouldn't be any issues with compatibility, but rebuild of the
depended components is recommanded.
Server plugins might require a newer version update, because they
sometimes have explicit server requirements. PostgreSQL maintainer
will help fixing/rebuilding any issues in the plugins.
== How To Test ==
Usual testing as when upgrading between major PostgreSQL versions,
running `postgresql-setup --upgrade` is necessary between major
versions.
Test that all other software runs well with PostgreSQL 14.
== User Experience ==
The users will have to upgrade their databases the same way as between
major PostgreSQL versions, aka `postgresql-setup --upgrade` after
installing PostgreSQL 14 server packages.
If users want to stick with PostgreSQL 13 for a little longer, there
will be PostgreSQL 13 module
== Dependencies ==
There are some packages (mostly server plugins), that build on top of
PostgreSQL. Since the separation of PostgreSQL client library (libpq
component), only packages that build server plugins should use
postgresql package in BuildRequires, others should use libpq. In case
of Postgresql-server, rebuild should be done to make sure all
potential binary incompatibilities are handled.
* PostgreSQL server dependecies
** perl-DBD-Pg
** pgaudit
** qt
** qt3
** qt5-qtbase
** postgres-decoderbufs
** gambas3
** kdb
** kea
** libpqxx
** openvas-manager
** orafce
** pg-semver
** pgRouting
** pgadmin3
** pgsphere
** postgis
** postgresql-ip4r
** postgresql-pgpool-II
** qt3
** rdkit
** rhdb-utils
** timescaledb
** pg_repack
== Contingency Plan ==
Revert changes in the non-modular packages and provide PostgreSQL 14
as a module stream only.
== Documentation ==
Upgrade strategy: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/upgrading.html
== Release Notes ==
Release notes for PostgreSQL 14 release:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/index.html
Overall overview of the changes and improvements:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/release-14.html
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
2 years, 3 months
