openSUSE Packaging February 2014

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[opensuse-packaging] rpmlint-mini
by Matwey V. Kornilov 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Hi Dirk and all, Some time in the past, I've integrated my rpmlint check (ErlangCheck.py) to openSUSE's checks. It is in Factory's rpmlint for a long time. Now, I would like to continue and make my check available as option to maintainers in OBS. The dependencies to ErlangCheck.py are python-pybeam, python-construct and python-six. All of them are in Factory for a long time. I need to modify rpmlint-mini to pack parts of python-pybeam, python-construct in order to make ErlangCheck.py working in OBS workers. I see that rpmlint-mini.spec is full of magic. What is the preferred way to pick python modules from %python_sitelib? Should I add another deps.txt and yet another loop...? I can make this is hundred different ways but it is better to ask prior. -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov http://blog.matwey.name xmpp:0x2207@jabber.ru -- 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] krb5 dependency in Base:System
by Stephan Kulow 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi, It's currently impossible to submit packages from Base:System due to repo-checker blocking submissions as base packages suddenly require krb5. This is due to a change in libtirpc, that creates a huge cycle. As I'm protecting Factory from having that cycle too, I block such updates. Unfortunately the check hits other packages in the cycle too, so this means: unless this change is reverted, it won't be possible to submit base packages. 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] Hidden patches/updated tarballs
by Michal Hrusecky 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Hi, I just started helping review team with reviews and I'm running into people who instead of creating patches and documenting them just update and change tarball (without bumping the version) effectivelly hiding patches inside. It is obviously wrong, but I was asked for the policy and I'm failing to find it. Anybody can help? Apart from that, what are the best practices for git snaphot packages? It can be related... Thanks -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. openSUSE Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz -- 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] RFC: Namespacing group and usernames
by Guido Berhoerster 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

I'd like to propose the following addition to the packaging policy regarding users and groups (https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Users_and_Groups): The names of users and groups which are created by a package should be prefixed with an underscore "_". This creates a safe namespace for the distribution and avoids collisions between system group and usernames which are created by packages and regular group and usernames. Existing users and groups can be renamed with the following scriptlet: %pre getent group GROUP >/dev/null && groupmod -n _GROUP GROUP getent group _GROUP >/dev/null || groupadd -r _GROUP getent passwd USER >/dev/null && usermod -l _USER USER getent passwd _USER >/dev/null || useradd -r -g _GROUP -d HOMEDIR -s /sbin/nologin -c "user for PACKAGENAME" _USER Group or username collisions can be problematic, if a username required for a package already exists, the pre-scriptlet will silently re-use the user/group for the package. While YaST apparently contains a blacklist preventing the creation of known system users/goups, this is tedious to maintain manually and doesn't cover the case where an administrator creates accounts via useradd/groupadd or maintains users/groups in LDAP. The lack of a separate namespace also prevents the use of certain group or usernames which might be desired. There is precedent for the above policy, it has been implemented in OpenBSD since 2002/2003 where it requires changes to about half of the packages that provide users and/or groups. However, the overwhelming majority are simple configuration file changes and one-line patches to change hard-coded names (see also http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2014-02/msg00103.html for a the numbers and https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/rpmlint/confi… for the group and usernames currently in use). This policy should only be enforced for new packages while existing packages can be gradually converted, I'd be willing to help with that. -- Guido Berhoerster -- 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] ReStructuredText (RST) in package change log
by Jason Craig 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

What should be done about a package that has an upstream change log in ReStructuredText (RST)? Usually the only markup I see in such a case is the ``foo`` construct (which means something should be displayed with fixed-width font, such as a variable or file name), so I'm not talking about anything exotic really. On the one hand, I think that the package change log is not an RST file and so RST markup should be removed for the package change log. But on the other hand, I don't feel like I should be modifying the upstream change log in general. I could be convinced to do it in a case like this though. Is there a rule already I should follow? -- Jason Craig -- 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] Re: [opensuse-buildservice] CI rights management
by Sascha Peilicke 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

On Sunday 23 February 2014 16:06:26 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Feb 19, 2014 5:32 PM, "Sascha Peilicke" <speilicke(a)suse.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > since more and more openSUSE projects start to make use of our CI > > infrastructure, we have to organize who's allowed to do what. In the past > > we > > > just added more and more people with rights to organize everything. So I > > tried > > > to reduce the global list of users with admin rights. Instead, we now > > have a > > > per-project (translates to Jenkins job) ACL matrix where each project can > > organize stuff themselves. In simple words, you now can configure per job > > who's allowed to change things. There should be no need to bug me again > : > :-) > : > > That said, the list of ci.o.o admins now is: > > coolo, jdsn, bmwiedemann and saschpe (me). > > > > The following openSUSE projects currently use ci.opensuse.org: > > - Open Build Service / osc > > - OpenStack > > - Yast / libyui > > > > The first two projects have per-job based access rules set already. If you > > have a ci.o.o job and want to grant somebody the right to modify it, just > > check "Enable project-based security" and add the (already registered) > > user in > > > question. > > > > And if you want to add your openSUSE-related project to our CI, please > > get in > > > touch with any of the guys mentioned above. That's it. > > I am guessing there is a wiki page where this is documented, perhaps it > would be possible to link to that page from http://ci.openSUSE.org? I have to admin that ci.opensuse.org is slightly under-documented. However, I'd like to avoid creating huge wiki pages that run out of sync. Instead, the CI boys already agreed to add/extend Jenkins job descriptions and similar things so that this is more obvious. I guess having a small wiki page about "how to get your stuff tested" wouldn't hurt... -- With kind regards, Sascha Peilicke SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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] rpmlint, or whatever checks
by Ruediger Meier 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hi, I never got it how to get straight forward around build failures which are caused by package checks. In my particular case I get on "SLE_11_SP2": .... I: Program causes undefined operation (likely same variable used twiceand post/pre incremented in the same expression). e.g. x = x++; Split it in two operations. E: dateutils sequence-point yuck-scmver.c:485 .... I've tried already rpmlintrc, for example addFilter(".*") addFilter("undefined operation") addFilter(".*operation on.*may be undefined.*") setBadness('sequence-point', 0) Is this an rpmlint issue at all? Or doesn't work rpmlintrc on SLE_11? I remember I had already issues in the past with "addFilter" which worked for all distros but not for SLE. cu, Rudi -- 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] metadata error
by doiggl＠velocitynet.com.au 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hello I get this metadata error when accessing the following: [openqa-factory-oss] type = yast2 name = openqa-factory-oss baseurl = http://openqa.opensuse.org/opensuse/factory-testing/repo/oss/ Possibly corrupted channel file (openqa-factory-oss). Will it be fixed ? Thanks Glenn -- 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] Can a package be updated as a newer version has been released.
by doiggl＠velocitynet.com.au 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hello, Can this package [1] be updated to version 1.4.1 from 1.3 the source has been released. [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/system:packagemanager/smart openSUSE Build Service > Projects > system:packagemanager > smart Source: http://launchpad.net/smart/trunk/1.4.1/+download/smart-1.4.1.tar.bz2 release details: [2011-10-09] https://launchpad.net/smart/+milestone/1.4.1 Thanks Glenn -- 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] suse_update_desktop_file and Categories
by Mariusz Fik 23 Feb '14

23 Feb '14

Hi, I'm trying to build kprinter4[1] package. According to desktop file category guidelines[2], I included in spec file: %suse_update_desktop_file -r %{name} Utility Printing But then build failed with: WARNING: Category "Printing" is unknown \! ERROR: No sufficient Category definition: {path_to_desktop_file} Errors in installed desktop file detected. Please refer to http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Package_Conventions/RPM_Macros Where is a problem and what it's more important, what is a solution? Our wiki page with desktop menu categories is outdated? build/check tool issue? [1] - https://github.com/credativ/kprinter4 [2] - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_desktop_menu_categories#Utility -- Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Mariusz Fik openSUSE Community Member GPG: 5FCE 7241 B3B9 32FD 455B C30E 42D6 6C88 9E83 7C3D

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