March 2019

[opensuse-packaging] New macro to limit resources allocation per thread
by Tomas Chvatal 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

Hello all, For use in libreoffice, chromium and others I've created macro that should allow you to limit jobs based on some constraints you can set later on in the spec to avoid OOM crashes. The usage is pretty straight forward (Once it is accepted in Tumbleweed): === BuildRequires: memory-constraints %build # require 2GB mem per thread %limit_build -m 2000 make %{?_smp_mflags} ==== Here the _smp_mflags vaule for 8GB machine would be 4 while default is number of cores (lets say 16)... … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] Updating libfuse rpm
by Goldwyn Rodrigues 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Hello, I am planning on updating libfuse from version 2.9.9 to 3.4.2. Currently, we have both libfuse2 (source fuse-2.9.9 or just fuse) and libfuse3 (source fuse-3.4.2 or fuse3). It would be nice if all users would move from libfuse2 to libfuse3. What would be the best method to accomplish this: 1. Simply update fuse to fuse-3.4.2 2. Mark fuse 3.4.2 as obsoletes fuse < 3, and ship both for a while 3. Any other method I am afraid we will break depending applications if we choose 1, though … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] Packagers breaking repositories ...
by Mathias Homann 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

So it seems that right now someone is in the process of doing some upgrade work in KDE:Qt. Whoever it is has turned publishing off, which usually is a good idea... ...but in this case it leads to hundreds of packages in KDE:Framework, KDE:Extras, and KDE:Applications being rebuilt, and being published, and because publishing of KDE:Qt is turned off, being unable to be installed due to missing dependencies. The really bad part is, that *some* packages from those newly built ones *will* be … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] Packagers - please check your "Url:"s
by Brüns, Stefan 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi fellow packagers, as part of a broader https support, many projects have changed there homepages from plain http to https. Some notable mentions: - github.com/* - sourceforge.net/projects/* - *.kde.org - *.gnome.org So the next time you do some package work, check if your Url: tag is now a redirect: $> curl -I http://amarok.kde.org HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://amarok.kde.org/ Currently, there are ~2000 (sub-)packages [1] which have a permanent redirect [2]. … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] spec-cleaner and defines
by Andreas Vetter 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Hi, here is my stupid question of the day: spec-cleaner wants to move defines to the beginning of the spec file. But I need it after Name and Version like that: Name: hmcfgusb Version: 0.103 %define tarball %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz ... URL: https://git.zerfleddert.de/hmcfgusb/releases/%{tarball} Source: %{tarball} spec-cleaner wants to turn it around, but then it does not work: %define tarball %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz Name: hmcfgusb Version:… [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] Something like BuildRecommends to increase test coverage?
by Bernhard Voelker 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

The coreutils-testsuite runs best with a list of tools like valgrind, gdb, python-inotify etc. but some of the tools are not available on some platforms. The problems is: a) if I add a BuildRequires on platforms that don't have that package, then the whole testsuite build on that platform fails. b) Now I can add a guard around the BuildRequires per platform/OS version manually, but: b1) manually maintaining such a list is tedious, b2) if the guards take out to many of BuildRequires, then … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] Including python modules using .pth file
by Chris Coutinho 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Hi, There are some packages that include python modules/packages that are not installable via setup.py. Since they might not end up on the normal python search path, python fails to find them and the build looks 'broken' For example, paraview (a package within the science project) installs its shared libraries into its own /usr/lib64/paraview subdirectory. The associated python3 packages get placed into /usr/lib64/paraview/python3.x/site-packages/. Another project I recently submitted places … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] macros for /opt/foo
by Michael Ströder 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

HI! Are there any RPM macros one should use when packaging software installed with a prefix /opt/foo? Thanks in advance. Ciao, Michael. -- 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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Re: [opensuse-packaging] macros for /opt/foo
by Michael Ströder 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

On 3/10/19 10:05 PM, Chris Punches wrote: > The RPMDB assures that not the filesystem paths. If you're using /opt > you should still consider using the proper paths. As a consultant I > often have this conversation with vendors providing software who don't > know better and it's practically an epidemic. You want people to use > the FHS to make good assumptions about where things are. I've heard all > manner of arguments for why they have to do it this … [View More]

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[opensuse-packaging] Manual requires not being displayed in build results?
by Todd Rme 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

It looks like the build results in the OSC web interface are not displaying requires specified in the spec file, only automatically-detected results. For example, with alsa, it Requires: alsa-utils. But if you look at the build results, that requirement is not listed: https://build.opensuse.org/build/openSUSE:Factory/standard/x86_64/alsa/_log This happens in every projects, package, and build target I have checked. I am not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior, though. -- To … [View More]

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