packaging September 2010

packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org

27 participants
17 discussions

Macro %{optflags}
by Sergio Belkin 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Hi, Does Makefile flags from the tarball overrides %{optflags} ? Thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

5 10

Packaging-related changes in GNOME
by Matthias Clasen 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

This cycle, some things land in GNOME land that will require minor adjustments of scriptlets: 1) GIO modules. GIO now uses a caching approach to its modules. If a package installs a loadable module in %{_libdir}/gio/modules, you need to run gio-querymodules to update %{_libdir}/gio/modules/giomodule.cache. There's the usual multilib pain; glib2 installs the binary as gio-querymodules-32/64. I propose to recommend the following scriptlets for this: %posttrans gio-querymodules-%{__isa_bits} || : %postun gio-querymodules-%{__isa_bits} || : 2) GSettings. GConf is on the way out, we will start seeing applications that are ported to GSettings (which is part of libgio in the glib2 package). GSettings uses schemas as well, and has a cache of those that needs updating if schemas are added/removed. The tool for this is glib-compile-schemas (schemas and their cache are arch-neutral, so no multilib pain here). Proposed scriptlets: %posttrans glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas || : %postun glib-compile-schemas %{_datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas || : 3) GTK3. gtk3 will be parallel installable with gtk2, which means it keeps its loadable modules separate. I took the occasion to rework things a bit to reduce the multilib pain. gdk-pixbuf loaders, theme engines and im modules get installed to %{_libdir}/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/{loaders,engines,immodules}, and the cache files for loaders and immodules have been relocated to %{_libdir}/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/{loaders,immodules}.cache. Suitable scriptlets to update these caches look as follows: %posttrans gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-3.0-%{__isa_bits} --update-cache || : gtk-query-immodules-3.0-%{__isa_bits} --update-cache || : %postun gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-3.0-%{__isa_bits} --update-cache || : gtk-query-immodules-3.0-%{__isa_bits} --update-cache || : I guess all the %postun scriptlets could be optimized with a if $1 -eq 0 Comments ? Matthias

4 6

Help with rpath issue
by Jirka Hladky 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hello everybody! I have run into rpath issue when creating rpm for hwloc (you might want to check package review ticket at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606498) rpath is added by libtool. Libraries are getting installed into /usr/lib64 but libtool does not recognize this as default library location on 64-bit system. One solution was to add "/usr/lib64" directory into /etc/ld.so.conf. Practical solution to get rpm was to add sed -i 's|^hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=.*|hardcode_libdir_flag_spec=""|g' libtool sed -i 's|^runpath_var=LD_RUN_PATH|runpath_var=DIE_RPATH_DIE|g' libtool into the %configure stage in rpm specs. I would like to get rid of these sed lines. For me it seems either that libtool is buggy or "/usr/lib64" directory is missing in /etc/ld.so.conf. I (together with upstream) would highly appreciate any feedback on it. Thanks Jirka

6 8

Packaging a postgresql cartridge
by Gianluca Sforna 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

I am packaging a library (rdkit.org) providing C/C++ and python interfaces. Additionally, there is some code to create a Postgresql cartridge with the same name (rdkit) It seems we lack any guideline about packaging these, which is not that bad considering I could only find another cartridge in the repos, postigis. However, I'd like to hear your opinion about how to name the subpackage; I guess candidates would be: 1- postgresql-rdkit 2- rdkit-postgresql 3- rdkit-pgsql right now I'm leaning toward 1- given that I found many instances of 3-style packages providing optional pgsql support for "name" and 2- is not very different from 3- thanks in advance Gianluca -- Gianluca Sforna http://morefedora.blogspot.com http://identi.ca/giallu - http://twitter.com/giallu

2 2

private-shared-object-provides in python packages
by Parag Nemade 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi, Do .so files installed in %{python_sitearch} MUST be filtered? I see one reference at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_Rpmlint_issues#private-shared-object-… but the filtering policy is not added to Python packaging guidelines. Also, why rpmlint complains it as warning and not an error? e.g. one case I see is pyorbit.x86_64: W: private-shared-object-provides /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ORBit.so ORBit.so()(64bit) A shared object soname provides is provided by a file in a path from which other packages should not directly load shared objects from. Such shared objects should thus not be depended on and they should not result in provides in the containing package. Get rid of the provides if appropriate, for example by filtering it out during build. Note that in some cases this may require disabling rpmbuild's internal dependency generator. Regards, Parag.

6 12

invalid ANT_HOME
by Jiri Vanek 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Greatings! This build https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2483737 failed: ... /builddir/build/BUILD/jpanoramamaker-4/nbproject/build-impl.xml:494: Problem: failed to create task or type propertyfile Cause: the class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.PropertyFile was not found. This looks like one of Ant's optional components. Action: Check that the appropriate optional JAR exists in -/usr/share/ant/lib -/builddir/.ant/lib -a directory added on the command line with the -lib argument Do not panic, this is a common problem. The commonest cause is a missing JAR. This is not a bug; it is a configuration problem .... I guess those are missing ant libraries. I had this problem when I was building this on my computer with "yumed ant". I have solved it by download ant directly from apache, unzip it to ~ and set and export $ANT_HOME (and also to add it to $PATH). export ANT_HOME=~/apache-ant-1.8.1/ echo $ANT_HOME export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME echo $PATH rpmbuild -ba ~/rpm/SPECS/jpanoramamaker.spec exit I should guess that this approach will not work on koji. Can you suggest me more "koji like" approach? Or way how to configure koji in similar way? Regards Jiri Vanek CZ

2 1

Access via gmane
by Michel Alexandre Salim 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi all, Most of the key Fedora mailing lists -- {devel,test}{,-announce}, legal, arm, etc. -- are mirrored via Gmane, meaning those of us still wedded to their NNTP readers can read it with a convenient interface. packaging, however, is not there as yet. Does anyone mind if I submit us for inclusion at http://gmane.org/subscribe.php ? Should I request that email addresses be scrambled or not? Thanks, -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: 78884778 Jabber: hircus(a)jabber.ccc.de | IRC: hircus(a)irc.freenode.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

2 1

Explicit Requires
by Sergio Belkin 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi Fedora people!, I have been reading http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires. It says that we should avoid explicit requires... I want to make sure that I understood it. Is an "explicit requires" is both: 1) A full package: eg: mysql-libs 2) A versioned library file:libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 So, the right way should be: Requires: libmysqlclient.so Please fix me if I misunderstood that. thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -

2 4

How to configure a yum repo conf for installing from a local DVD?
by Philip Prindeville 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I'm trying to come up with a file to plop in /etc/yum.repos.d/*.conf that will allow me to do: % yum --enablerepos=fedora-dvd install a b c from a DVD as my repository. I need to do this in a scenario where I don't have internet connectivity. Anyone have previous experience? Thanks, -Philip

3 2

rpm and backward compatibility
by Ian Leonard 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, I've just installed F12 and now can't generate rpms that work on older (FC6, in this case) distros. The problem is the payload compression: error: Failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 is needed by ...... This appears to be caused by a change in the compression library. Google suggests that the older algorithm can be selected with something like: %_binary_payload w2.lzdio to the spec file When building I get: error: line 22: Unknown tag: w2.xzdio w2.lzdio What would be the correct syntax? Thanks. -- Regards, Ian Leonard

2 2

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

packaging September 2010