openSUSE Packaging April 2009

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[opensuse-packaging] Import of Fedora Packaging Guidelines
by Michal Vyskocil 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi all, as you know I wrote a post about Fedora Packaging Guidelines [1]. I was working on it during last three weeks (but a little, so it takes a long time :)) and nowadays I'm ready to import a Fedora's content to en.opensuse.org wiki. Now it is on pack.suse.cz [2]. I also checked that none of that page conflicts with an existing content on openSUSE wiki, so it can be imported easily. Tom Callaway [3] from RedHat confirms me that a Guidelines are under Open Publication License [4] and we can use it for SUSE without restrictions. He was also interested on future collaboration and offers some meeting on LinuxTag - it would be nice if anyone from SUSE will be ready to start a discussion. Before import I'd like to ask: Which pages should be excluded for openSUSE? Some pages seems that they are not interesting for SUSE (like Packaging:OldJPackagePolicy [5], Packaging:SugarActivities [6]). Import it, or don't? Second one is how to edit the text and adapt it for SUSE? Change the existing text or leave it and add a SUSE specifics to the beginning or end of page (as suggests Vladimir)? The second way should help us with synchronizing of changes. After that I'll add a warning [7] on the beginning of every page to prevent that some users will use those guidelines and ask for help with editing ;-) [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2009-02/msg00043.html [2] http://pack.suse.cz/mvyskocil/fedora-packaging-guidelines/ [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/OPL [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OldJPackagePolicy [6] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SugarActivityGuidelines [7] http://en.opensuse.org/Template:Warning1 Best regards Michal Vyskocil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] /etc/modprobe.* changes
by Michal Marek 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi, the new module-init-tools, which will appear in Factory soon, deprecated /etc/modprobe.conf(.local) and only uses /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf configuration files (files without the .conf suffix are still read, but cause a warning). I tried to find and fix packages that install modprobe config files, but in case I missed some, the fix is simple: change /etc/modprobe.d/$name to /etc/modprobe.d/50-$name.conf. Also, mkinitrd should be updated to not copy /etc/modprobe.conf* if it's not there. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Switching to gcc 4.4
by Stephan Kulow 15 May '09

15 May '09

Hi, Now that gcc 4.4.0 is released, we want to switch to it. But as a matter of fact, there are still ~70 build failures for factory - you can check out the current state here: https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=openSUSE:Factory:Gcc44 Sorted by devel project this comes down to: GNOME:Factory bug-buddy GNOME:Factory exempi GNOME:Factory inkscape GNOME:Factory libjingle GNOME:Factory NetworkManager-gnome home:anicka:Factory perl-PDL home:azouhr:Factory lyx home:benkai:Factory alpine home:bigironman:Factory dvgrab home:BinLi:Factory novell-ipsec-tools home:clydegriffin:Factory kernel-xen home:darix:Factory netboot home:duwe:Factory trustedgrub home:elvigia:Factory libxspf home:fseidel:Factory QLandkarte home:garloff:Factory gsl home:hfiguiere:Factory gtkmathview home:hhetter123:Factory wesnoth-data home:jjolly:Factory infiniband-diags home:jjolly:Factory opensm home:jsmeix:Factory pstoedit home:kkeil:Factory ekiga home:kwk:Factory tulip home:matejcik:Factory python-ldap home:mkudlvasr:Factory virtualbox-ose home:mszeredi:Factory fusepod home:nadvornik:Factory pdns home:nadvornik:Factory pdns-recursor home:olh:Factory lsvpd home:pgajdos:Factory hdf5 home:pmladek:Factory OpenOffice_org-libs-core home:pmladek:Factory OpenOffice_org-writer home:pnemec:Factory albumshaper home:prusnak:factory pingus home:rhafer:Factory openldap2 home:rwill:Factory pcp home:sax2:Factory sax2 home:sbrabec:Factory hugin home:sbrabec:Factory kompozer home:thomas-schraitle:Factory pdftk home:xwhu:Factory stardict Java:packages axis Java:packages bcel Java:packages bea-stax Java:packages castor Java:packages gnu-inetlib Java:packages struts KDE:KDE3 celestia KDE:KDE3 kdesdk3 KDE:KDE3 kover KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop decibel KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop krusader KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop mono-kde4 KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop strigi KDE:KDE4:Factory:Extra-Apps koffice2 Kernel:HEAD kernel-debug Kernel:HEAD kernel-default Kernel:HEAD kernel-pae Kernel:HEAD kernel-syms Kernel:HEAD kernel-trace mozilla:Factory MozillaSunbird mozilla:Factory MozillaThunderbird mozilla:Factory mozilla-xulrunner190 multimedia:audio hydrogen multimedia:libs libofa security:chipcard pcsc-cyberjack security:chipcard pcsc-reflex60 server:database mysql-gui-tools server:database mysql-workbench server:ha-clustering:Factory openais 31 packages have simply missing includes: albumshaper bug-buddy celestia dvgrab exempi fusepod gtkmathview hugin hydrogen inkscape kdesdk3 kover krusader libjingle libofa libxspf lsvpd mono-kde4 mysql-gui-tools mysql-workbench OpenOffice_org-extensions OpenOffice_org-libs-core OpenOffice_org-writer pcsc-cyberjack pdns pdns-recursor pingus QLandkarte sax2 stardict tulip 13 packages have incorrect preprocessor statements: infiniband-diags kompozer MozillaSunbird MozillaThunderbird mozilla-xulrunner181 mozilla-xulrunner190 openais opensm pcp pstoedit python-ldap tog-pegasus wesnoth-data The remaining 30 packages I couldn't classify, they might require some more analysis to fix. It would be good if you could check this before we switch, we plan to do on May 15th. That gives you plenty of time to fix the missing includes - as announced earlier you can test build like this: osc build --alternative-project openSUSE:Factory:Gcc44 staging (or you temporary add that repo to your project) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] rsyncable source and debug package repos for 11.1
by Hans-Peter Jansen 13 May '09

13 May '09

[First inquiry on opensuse with this issue ML got no responses, hopefully it's a second fit here] Hi, for some reason, I need rsyncable source and debug package repos for 11.1. Unfortunately, gwdg.de doesn't provide them anymore (unlike 11.0 and before). Eberhard told me, that SUSE master server doesn't provide the necessary resources :-(. The .de mirrors I tried, didn't provide rsyncable targets either. Any idea, where I can get back to them? TIA, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Source links semantics, broken links, and merging
by Andreas Gruenbacher 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hello, I've been looking at the way how source links work, and I find their current behavior highly irritating. I would like to share my observations and propose a fix to make things a lot more obvious (without losing functionality). Please bear with me as I try to describe things as completely as necessary; sorry I can't make this short. I'll use the terms 'link package' for a package that links to another package, and 'target package' for a package that another package links to. Theory ====== When you ignore the space saving aspect, the key functionality of link packages is to record relative changes to packages. When the target package changes, these changes propagate to link packages (at least conceptually), and the link packages get rebuilt as well. Picture this as follows (with revision numbers in parentheses, time progressing from top to bottom, and expanded links): target(1) target(2) <--- link(1) link(2) target(3) We start at target(2). link(1) is created against target(2): initially there are no changes, so link(1) and target(2) are identical. Then link(1) is changed, resulting in link(2). The server computes and stores the diff between target(2) and link(2); let us call this diff(target(2), link(2)). Next, target(2) is changed, resulting in target(3). This triggers a rebuild of target(3) and of a package with the changes in link(2) applied to target(3). Let us call this apply(diff(target(2), link(2)), target(3)). Another way of saying this is that the build service merges the changes between target(2) and its two descendants target(3) and link(2) and builds the result. Let us call this merge(target(3), target(2), link(2)). Current behavior and problems ============================= When checking out a link package with osc, you get an expanded package by default: the diff stored in the link gets applied to the most recent version of the target package. This is similar to a merge, but without looking at the common ancestor between the two versions, and there are a number of problems: * You will not get the same state out of the build service that you have checked in. * If the changes in the target package and the link package overlap, the diff will not apply, and you will get nothing out of the build service at all. * Applying patches does not actually guarantee that the changes will be applied correctly and in the correct places. You may end up with subtle mismerges. * When you create another revision of the link package, you will not know that an implicit "merge" has even happened, and you will not be able to verify the results. * You will not be able to identify which revisions were made in the link or target package since when the two diverged. * The build service does not record the revision of the target package that it generated its diffs against. This means that there is no reliable way to reconstruct the original version of a link; one can only guess which revision of the target package the link might have been generated against based on timestamps. No locking is done across packages during checkins, so the timestamps are not guaranteed to be synchronized across packages, either. Concurrent checkins can lead to wrong guesses no matter how smart the guess algorithm is. * Because the server does not record which revision a link was generated against (the common ancestor when merging), it is not possible to actually perform a correct three-way merge. Any attempt to still try that is broken in one way or another. Proposed improvements ===================== * When creating a revision of a link package, always store the revision of the target package that the diff was generated against. * When checking out a link, always expand it against the revision of the target package that the link was created against. That way, links cannot break (unless the target package is deleted). The expansion could be done client or server side; the result would be the same either way: exactly what the user checked in; no magic, and no surprises. If the server has more recent revisions of the target package available, indicate to the user to perform a merge (either mandatorily or optionally; see the next item). * When committing a link package, either (a) make sure that the user has been working against the most recent version of the target package, or (b) allow commits to be done against older versions of the target package. Both (a) and (b) require the client to send the revision of the target package it has been using as part of the commit, but that is easy. * Merging could be implemented as three-way merge, either server or client side, using merge(1) or diff3(1). It's not that hard to implement that from scratch. What's more, when importing build service packages into a version control system, merging would come for free. Other version control systems, starting back with rcs(1), use merge(1) or a variant thereof. I have played around with the two when implementing the --merge option in GNU patch, and after giving it some real thought, I also went with the merge(1) format because the results are a lot more practical.) Thanks for your help with this! Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Re: [opensuse-buildservice] osc 0.117 with "repairlink" and "changelog" support
by Adrian Schröter 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi Anas, Am Montag, 27. April 2009 02:20:17 schrieb Anas Nashif: > I am noticing a problem with linking when using 0.117: > > when I checkin changes on local obs server: > > Transmitting file data .Server returned an error: HTTP Error 404: Not > Found > /srv/obs/sources/libva/754a44109bca004bca345b21424268ac-/LINK: No such > file or directory The /LINK looks a bit wrong to me at this place. However, I can not reproduce it here. Can you send the output of "osc -d linkpac..." and double check that you do not have any wrong source server ? Given that we changed also the source server in this code area, we might have introduced an incompatible change :/ Which version of the source server do you use ? bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] How to avoid automatic package name conversion in spec?
by Takashi Iwai 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, can anyone point out how to stop the automatic package-name conversion in spec files for old distros? For example, libjack-devel in BuildRequires is converted to jack-devel for 10.3. Now we have multimedia:libs repo to keep the latest version where it creates libjack0 and libjack-devel packages. Thus this breaks. For the implicit dependency, we can avoid the name conflict via Prefer: in prjconf. But, for the explicit name conversion, it doesn't seem to help. Any hint? thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] osc 0.117 with "repairlink" and "changelog" support
by Adrian Schröter 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

A new osc release, version 0.117 is out. This one has as main features the long awaited "repairlink" functionality to fix broken source links due to conflicting source changes and also tool support to maintain the .changes file easier. "osc repairlink" was implemented by Michael Schroeder. It checks out a package with merged source changes. It usesa 3-way merge to resolve file conflicts. After reviewing/repairing the merge, 'osc ci' will re-create a working source link. "osc vc" was implemented by Michal Vyskocil and can collect commit messages to prepare a changelog entry in the .changes file. Please note that the entries there get read by users of the package, so commit messages like "get it building" or "yet another try to get the patch applied" are not helpfull for them and should get removed from the .changes file. An alternative solution to maintain the changelog is to call "buildvc" directly, which gets provided by the also released build.rpm There are also a number of bugfixes and improvements inside to make your life easier: * You do not need to specify project and package anymore on "osc getbinaries" when your cwd is a checkout package. * "osc branch" got a new option to define a different branch project name. * "osc branch" got a new option to checkout the package directly after branching * "osc co PACKAGE" works inside of a checked out project directory You can find the latest version of osc and build rpms in openSUSE:Tools project as usual. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/ I hope this makes your life much easier now :) bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian(a)suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Kobby
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hello Mates, i have an strange Error. The Build for Factory runs to the Finish. But 11.1 gives an Error: ---snip--- + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-hook Processing files: kde4-kobby-1.0b1-3.1 error: File not found: /var/tmp/kde4-kobby-1.0b1-build/usr/bin/kobby Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.8177 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD + cd kobby-1.0b1 + DOCDIR=/var/tmp/kde4-kobby-1.0b1-build/usr/share/doc/packages/kde4- kobby + export DOCDIR + rm -rf /var/tmp/kde4-kobby-1.0b1-build/usr/share/doc/packages/kde4- kobby + /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/kde4-kobby-1.0b1- build/usr/share/doc/packages/kde4-kobby + cp -pr AUTHORS INSTALL README /var/tmp/kde4-kobby-1.0b1- build/usr/share/doc/packages/kde4-kobby + exit 0 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kde4- kobby-1.0b1-build Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kde4- kobby-1.0b1-build RPM build errors: cannot open Pubkeys index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) File not found: /var/tmp/kde4-kobby-1.0b1-build/usr/bin/kobby ---snap--- Why Factory accept the Build and 11.1 not? -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team openSUSE Build Service openSUSE Features Screening Team Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Project-Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill Private-Blog: http://saschasbacktrace.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Help to review a package
by Vincent Untz 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi, I'd like the help from other packagers to review this package: home:FunkyM:branches:GNOME:Factory/libinfinity It's needed for the new gobby that will end in GNOME:Factory once libinfinity will be ready. I'm requesting help since it does stuff that I'm not used to, like installing a daemon, using a sysconfig file, etc. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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