[opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2020/06
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week I canceled more snapshots than I released – only 2 snapshots have been sent out (0201 and 0205). Feels quite bad, but on the other hand, I’m glad we have openQA protecting you, the openSUSE Tumbleweed users, from those issues. As the -factory mailing list shows this week, despite all the testing, we can’t ever predict all the special cases found on our users’ machines. So, what was happening this week: * Qt 5.14.1 * SQLite 3.31.1 * Virtualbox 6.1.2 * Mesa 19.3.3 * chkconfig moved from aaa_base to insserv-compat (if you have some legacy init scripts around from a package that does not specify this dependency, please file a bug) * netcfg – the topic on the mailing list: /etc/services, /etc/protocols and /etc/ethers moved to /usr/etc. Two major sources for errors on user machines have been identified: * users ignoring *.rpmnew files and nor merging the config changes from packages into their own config (in this specific case for /etc/nsswitch.conf) * Some people seem to have removed even patterns-base- minimal_base, which resulted in those users not having libnss_usrfiles2 being pulled in. As a result, even if the config file was maintained/corrected, the services file could not be found. * Both issues are being attempted to be resolved: libnss_usrfiles2 is not only required by the pattern, but also by netcfg (netcfg sets the default config, so we thought this is the best point) and aaa_base tries to correct /etc/nsswitch.conf (but that results in ursfiles being added again, even if the user would have explicitly removed it) I hope we could help everybody recover their system in a proper way by now, and that the future goal – having as few as possible files in /etc config from the distribution – is something you can follow as a rationale. Besides that, the stagings are still filled with these things: * KDE Applications 19.12.2 * KDE Plasma 5.18 * Linux Kernel 5.5.1 * Python 3.8 (salt, hopefully going to be unblocking soon) * Removal of python 2 * glibc 2.31 * GNU make 4.3 * libcap 2.30: breaks fakeroot and drpm * RPM: change of the database format to ndb * elfutils: adding support for debuginfod Cheers, Dominique
On Fri, Feb 07, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
* netcfg – the topic on the mailing list: /etc/services, /etc/protocols and /etc/ethers moved to /usr/etc. Two major sources for errors on user machines have been identified: * users ignoring *.rpmnew files and nor merging the config changes from packages into their own config (in this specific case for /etc/nsswitch.conf) * Some people seem to have removed even patterns-base- minimal_base, which resulted in those users not having libnss_usrfiles2 being pulled in. As a result, even if the config file was maintained/corrected, the services file could not be found. * Both issues are being attempted to be resolved: libnss_usrfiles2 is not only required by the pattern, but also by netcfg (netcfg sets the default config, so we thought this is the best point) and aaa_base tries to correct /etc/nsswitch.conf (but that results in ursfiles being added again, even if the user would have explicitly removed it)
To be fair: the aaa_base hack is mostly because of another bug in another config tool, which removes usrfile and so there is no chance for the user to end with a corret nsswtich.conf, even if they really did not modify /etc/nsswitch.conf themself and even if there is no /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew file. And you can disable automatic adding it: add it as comment at the end of the line. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Felix Imendoerffer (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Freitag, 7. Februar 2020 17:27:06 CET Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
* libcap 2.30: breaks fakeroot and drpm
drpm should already be solved, valgrind stumbled over some uninitialized, but unused syscall parameters in a syscall unknown to it. Fixed in current valgrind builts. fakeroot is a completely different story - it likely stumbles over the same syscall (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, result)), but making this work is more than copying/adapting a few lines of existing code. Unfortunately, fakeroot upstream is quite dead, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi? package=libfakeroot;package=fakeroot One possibility would be to build fakeroot without capability support. Voluteers for fixing and maintaining fakeroot, please step up! Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019
On Fri, 2020-02-07 at 17:56 +0100, Stefan Brüns wrote:
On Freitag, 7. Februar 2020 17:27:06 CET Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
* libcap 2.30: breaks fakeroot and drpm
drpm should already be solved, valgrind stumbled over some uninitialized, but unused syscall parameters in a syscall unknown to it. Fixed in current valgrind builts.
Thanks for the info! Good to hear there is some progress.
fakeroot is a completely different story - it likely stumbles over the same syscall (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, result)), but making this work is more than copying/adapting a few lines of existing code.
Unfortunately, fakeroot upstream is quite dead, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi? package=libfakeroot;package=fakeroot
One possibility would be to build fakeroot without capability support.
Voluteers for fixing and maintaining fakeroot, please step up!
dependson fakeroot fakeroot : cfengine python-stdeb
I'd say anybody actually using fakeroot would be a good candidate to step up here. Cheers, Dominique
On Freitag, 7. Februar 2020 18:02:02 CET Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
dependson fakeroot
fakeroot : cfengine
Fortunately just on paper, SR submitted: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/772199 Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Bergstraße 21 / 52062 Aachen home: +49 241 53809034 mobile: +49 151 50412019
On Fri, 2020-02-07 at 19:09 +0100, Stefan Brüns wrote:
On Freitag, 7. Februar 2020 18:02:02 CET Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
dependson fakeroot
fakeroot : cfengine
Fortunately just on paper, SR submitted: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/772199
That's 50% done - Good so. Maybe we can actually just kill it off. Even bettre. Cheers, Dominique
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Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar
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Stefan Brüns
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Thorsten Kukuk