openSUSE Packaging September 2013

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[opensuse-packaging] Proper version scheme for packages from git, hg, svn, ...
by Sascha Peilicke 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

Hi guys, I'd like to gather some input on versioning schemes used for packaging SCM snapshots. Why do we care at all? Ignoring the source pkg and the changes file for the moment, the package version is meant to tell the user exactly which state of the software was provided to him. When you package an upstream tarball, you implicitly provide information about what was released and when. And the package build is reproducable, it won't change how often you download the tarball referenced in Source:. Thus it's enough to just have sth. like this in your spec file: Version: 1.2.3 So if you have to package a (random) SCM snapshot, you want to make sure that it's obvious which commit you picked, so that others can confirm and eventually repeat the build. Here's a small list of flavors that I've come across or used myself. Please not that I replaced the stable (upstream) version with X, since that's not the part I'm interested here. Also, the word "git" can be replaced by whatever SCM at hand: 1) X+git 2) X_20041122git 3) X+git20111213 4) X.a258.g003e7e3 5) X+git.1363873583.8dfab15 Albeit you can discuss the format differences, 2) and 3) are much better than 1) since they at least broadly state when the SCM snapshot was taken. 4) Does a better job by providing the commit number/hash but breaks RPM upgradeability. Random commit hashes aren't upgradeable right? So the best version is indeed number 5), where the first number is the commit date and the second one is the commit hash. The date assures upgradability, because it increments always linearly and the commit hash provides for reproducability. You can of course argue about dots vs, any other separating paragraph. Also, instead of "+git", you may prefer sth. different (along as it won't break RPM's version comparison mechanism). TL;DR ===== My recommendation would be to (at least loosely) follow pattern 5) versioning if you ever have to package from SCMs. While devel projects are rather free to do whatever they prefer, I'd say it's appropriate for Factory submissions. Bonus ===== There is absolutely no reason to do this manually. Use the tar_scm source service (in disabled or local_only mode !!!) if you want to fully automate this. Here are some examples: Cloud:OpenStack:Master / openstack-utils devel:languages:go / go-assert -- Sascha Peilicke SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-packaging] CrossToolchain question
by Matwey V. Kornilov 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Hi, In CrossToolchain:avr, I see avr-gcc-* and cross-avr-gcc. What is the difference? What is correct naming? (I suppose the last one). What guidelines/rules should I follow to create CrossToolchain subproject for yet unsupported arch? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] prosody-relates sr's to server:messaging / lua packaging
by Sascha Peilicke 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hi Marguerite, it seems like it's time to review your requests, it's only been 2 months :-/ While the submits look mostly fine to me, I wonder whether the lua dependencies should go into devel:languages:lua following the package style / naming there and be linked instead into server:messaging? From glimpsing at d:l:lua, it's in a really sorry state and needs a lot of love. I don't know if you'd be interested in working on that, thus I'm opening this up to the wider community. -- Sascha Peilicke SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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[opensuse-packaging] Making packages ccbuild and bobcat or help doing so
by Daniël Huisman 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Hi all, I'm not sure this is the right mailing list but here I go. After a long search on howto making packeges and a lot of try and more error I was hoping you all could help. For a development project I have to run ccbuild, it makes dynamic makefiles. But I can't find any package to install it. I don't like building and running from source. It prevents from keeping track of what is installed. That said I have a spec-file for ccbuild that looks okay. But it needs bobcat (Brokken's Own Base Classes And Templates). And that's where the big problem is. I can't seem to get a spec-file to build it. I always get an error on the directory or the files in use. So I was hoping you could help me making a package for ccbuild and/or bobcat. I even think that there will be dev how would like to see them in openSUSE. Best regarts Daniël Huisman bobcat: http://bobcat.sourceforge.net/ made my Frans Brokken the same one as icmake ccbuild http://www.logfish.net/pr/ccbuild/ spec-file at https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/home:Drunken/ccbuild/ccbuild.s… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] firefox-esr
by Felix Miata 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

I'm asking Wolfgang directly instead of only a list because of firefox-esr changelog, and http://lists.opensuse.org/ doesn't indicate a good place for Mozilla questions spanning different OS releases. IIUC, 24 is scheduled to take over esr soon. I don't want anything newer than 22 installed as default Firefox anywhere around here. Its UI has been dumbed down too much. I'd rather 17 for normal use as long as it's viable, with SeaMonkey and Konq for things requiring latest features and/or security updates. Maybe others have similar feelings and would like access to a 17-latest rpm in 13.1 now that beta1 has been announced. 12.3 has latest, 17.0.9, available in mozilla/openSUSE_12.3 repo. 13.1 has 6 month old 17.0.4 available in mozilla:/experimentalopenSUSE_Factory repo. 1-Is old version for 13.1 oversight? 2-Can 12.3's rpm be installed in 13.1 without need to backlevel deps/libs? 3-Why isn't esr available in a standard Factory/13.1 repo instead of "experimental"? Why does BS have a lot of what looks like the same thing under two different names? e.g. mozilla/ mozilla:/ Other than different names and different subdirs, what's the distinction between those with and without ":"? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] antRun issue - symlink solution
by Denny Beyer 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Dear all, there seems to be a setup issue for antRun that makes the scala builds fail, as antRun could not be found. By creating a symlink by hand from "/usr/share/ant/bin/antRun" to "/usr/bin/antRun" could possibly fix it, but I didn't get it to work. I tried the following in build section of the spec: # Create symlink to fix antRun setup bug mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/share/ant/bin/ cd %{buildroot}/usr/share/ant/bin/ ln -s ../../../bin/antRun as suggested, but this didn't work. Any idea, how to get this working again? Sorry for crossposting, but this seems a better place to ask. project : devel:languages:scala package: scala Thanks, Denny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] new factory build failure - I used to be able to read a c compiler error, but apparently no longer
by Greg Freemyer 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

I maintain libprelude and it is now failing in factory. I assume a new gcc compiler went in recently. (It still builds fine in the 13.1 branch.) A local build log has these lines which I think are the critical ones: ============================= [ 191s] Making all in lua [ 191s] make[3]: Entering directory `/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libprelude-1.0.1/bindings/lua' [ 191s] /usr/bin/swig -c++ -I../../bindings -I../../bindings/c++/include -I../../src/include -I../../src/libprelude-error -lua -o PreludeEasy.cxx libpreludecpp.i [ 191s] SWIG:1: Warning 125: Use of the include path to find the input file is deprecated and will not work with ccache. Please include the path when specifying the input file. [ 191s] ../../bindings/c++/include/prelude-error.hxx:48: Warning 503: Can't wrap 'operator const char*' unless renamed to a valid identifier. [ 191s] ../../bindings/c++/include/prelude-error.hxx:49: Warning 503: Can't wrap 'operator const std::string' unless renamed to a valid identifier. [ 191s] /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I../../src/libprelude-error -I../../bindings/c++/include -I../../libmissing -I../../libmissing -fomit-frame-pointer -fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -c -o PreludeEasy.lo PreludeEasy.cxx [ 191s] libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I../../src/libprelude-error -I../../bindings/c++/include -I../../libmissing -I../../libmissing -fomit-frame-pointer -fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -c PreludeEasy.cxx -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/PreludeEasy.o [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx: In function 'int _wrap_IDMEFValue_Clone(lua_State*)': [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx:7154:9: warning: unused variable 'ret' [-Wunused-variable] [ 192s] int ret; [ 192s] ^ [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx: In function 'int _wrap_IDMEFPath_Get(lua_State*)': [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx:7376:9: warning: unused variable 'ret' [-Wunused-variable] [ 192s] int ret; [ 192s] ^ [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx: In function 'int _wrap_IDMEF_Get(lua_State*)': [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx:10519:9: warning: unused variable 'ret' [-Wunused-variable] [ 192s] int ret; [ 192s] ^ [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx: In function 'void luaopen_PreludeEasy_user(lua_State*)': [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx:11337:53: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare] [ 192s] if ( idx >= ((sizeof(argv) / sizeof(char *)) - 1) ) [ 192s] ^ [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx: In function 'int SWIG_Lua_namespace_register(lua_State*, swig_lua_namespace*)': [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx:1278:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] [ 192s] } [ 192s] ^ [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx: In function 'int SWIG_Lua_add_namespace_details(lua_State*, swig_lua_namespace*)': [ 192s] PreludeEasy.cxx:1248:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] [ 192s] } [ 192s] ^ ================== The last 2 warnings are causing the build to fail (or so I believe). So you can see the compile is in the directory bindings/lua and the file PreludeEasy.cxx is being compiled. My confusion is when I go look in the source file at lines 1248 and 1278 I have: 1248: SWIGINTERN void SWIG_Lua_class_register(lua_State* L,swig_lua_class* clss) 1278: lua_rawset(L,-3); /* metatable into registry */ Neither of those look like they correspond to the warnings. Further if I search the source tree for SWIG_Lua_namespace_register or SWIG_Lua_add_namespace_details I don't find either one. Can someone help me try to track down how to patch this. fyi: I looked upstream and this hasn't yet been reported. I thought I wold try to provide a patch with my bug report, but I may have to just submit a bug report and wait for a patch from upstream. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] openSUSE:13.1 created
by Stephan Kulow 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi, We branched the sources of factory into openSUSE:13.1 and from now on I will cherry pick openSUSE:Factory submit requests to copy into 13.1 To ease my work there, it would be great if you document your expectations and the bugs you fixed. E.g. I agreed to take GNOME 3.10, but that does not mean every update of a package that has GNOME in the group tag is automatically going into 13.1. The accept message of your submit request will tell you if I copied to 13.1 or not. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] Any texlive packager willing to take care of texlive-cjk-latex-extras in M17N?
by Marguerite Su 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Hi, packagers, I need help from texlive packagers with texlive-cjk-latex-extras in M17N. Personally I don't know how to package for texlive...and I didn't find tutorial on Portal:Packaging. It's now in a fail status for 13.1 and Factory. I read its URL tag in specfile, upstream now has a different source name "cjk-*" for it and released a lot of versions (the latest happened in late 2012) So just fix the package doesn't work, we need to update it. I think such an important update should be done by experts instead of a person who know nothing about it... Greetings Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-packaging] How to unlink packages from Factory?
by Marguerite Su 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

Hi, I noticed some packages in M17N were dropped from Factory. But the links are still there, so they're all in a "broken" status. How can I remove the links and make them build inside M17N? Greetings Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner(a)opensuse.org

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