Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (842 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Linda Walsh <suse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Are you using the build command?
> >
> > All I can say is that it builds without problems.  Otherwise you would
> > not have a src rpm to look at ;-)
> >
> > Andreas
> ----
>       I understand, I think, your point -- how did the src rpm
> get generated if it didn't work.
>
>       That's what I'm trying to find out.
>
>       I'm using rpmbuild -ba.

That might mean that you have different packages in the environment than
we have.  Please double check the BuildRequires line.

>       I'm doing things that build might not support -- but that
> *shouldn't* make a difference.  If I find something that is making
> the difference, I want to understand why its failing and correct the
> problem.
>
>       1) My initial purpose was to drain the swamp that had the
> alligators in it...no.  Wait, that was last week.
>
>       1a) Initial purpose was to apply high-performance source
> patches to scp/ssh.  Goal -- going from current ~3MB/s up to
> about 10 times that.  Max raw TCP with jumbo packets was over 90MB/s.
> So I have a bit of headroom to improve on.  Max file transfer with
> normal size packets was ~70+MB/s over UDB (CIFS).  I hoped NFS/TCP
> would do better, but that hasn't been the case so far.  Nevertheless,
> my most common method of xferring files has been scp/ssh.  So that's my
> short-term goal.
>
>       The patches were available against 4.7 or 5.0 versions of openssh.
> suse10.3 has 4.6 in it.  I thought I'd have better luck in 'eventual
> integration into my systems if I started with a suSE rpm -- I prefer packaging
> my software mods in rpms -- they are usually fairly stable ways of reproducing
> the software and preserving its source for later.
>
>       I checked suse11.0 -- and it is using openssh5.0 -- one of the versions
> supported by the patchsets.  Discovered via trial&error that applying the
> high-perf patches, Then applying the rest of the suse patches generated fewest
> conflicts.  Only conflict was in a makefile that added suse's libaudit to a
> link.
>
>       So at this point, I'm building across releases 11.0 src rpm on
> 10.3 with 3rd party patches.  Is this something "build" is designed for?

Yes, it is.

It might be that more people can help you on the opensuse-packaging
mailing list - or try the IRC channel,

Andreas
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