I'm about to submit another patch, but is it *really* necessary to create a
branch even for one-liners like this one?   Is there a problem if I submit a
patch against the head of origin/master?

Just trying to be lazy...

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Phillip Moore <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Looks like I'll get to patch some source code instead of some docs now...
>
> I think I found the problem.   I dug into the code and found out how the
> .version file is parsed.  However, when makesrpm.pl untars the source, it
> does NOT untar everything.  I hacked makesrpm.pl to abort after untarring
> the source, and here's the entire directory:
>
> efs...@madefsd01$ ll -a /tmp/ShFYl5PUyS/openafs-1.5.77
> total 24
> drwxrwxr-x 4 efsops efsops 4096 Oct  7 14:39 .
> drwx------ 3 efsops efsops 4096 Oct  7 14:39 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 efsops efsops 4096 Oct  7 14:31 build-tools
> -rw-r--r-- 1 efsops efsops 6604 Sep  7 21:01 configure.ac
> drwxrwxr-x 3 efsops efsops 4096 Oct  7 14:39 src
>
> It's starting to become obvious that noone has built the rpms from the
> source tree without having a complete git checkout, because if .version's
> not there, then it falls back on querying the version with:
>
>     git_version=`git describe --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null`
>
> The workaround is to add .version to the list of files extracted.
>
> Now I get:
>
> efs...@madefsd01$ ./makesrpm.pl ../../../../openafs-1.5.77-src.tar.bz2
> ../../../../openafs-1.5.77-doc.tar.bz2
> Building version 1.5.77
> ...
> ...
>
> Patch to follow shortly...
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:18:36 -0400
>> Phillip Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > and then I was able to at least build the srpm.  However, when
>> rebuilding
>> > the srpm to get binary rpms:
>> >
>> > + /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc
>> /var/tmp/rpm-root/SOURCES/openafs-UNKNOWN-doc.tar.bz2
>> > + tar -xf -
>> > tar: Read 6144 bytes from -
>> > + STATUS=0
>> > + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
>> > + cd openafs-UNKNOWN
>> > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.73321: line 51: cd: openafs-UNKNOWN: No such file or
>> > directory
>> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.73321 (%prep)
>>
>> I don't know why it's doing that if you gave it a .version, but I think
>> if you make the src and doc tarballs contain a directory called
>> openafs-UNKNOWN instead of openafs-1.5.77, it will get through this.
>>
>> > Working backwards, I see where the UNKNOWN comes from.  When building
>> the
>> > srpm (which builds without errors):
>> >
>> >     efs...@madefsd01$ ./makesrpm.pl../../../../openafs-1.5.77-src.tar.bz2
>> > ../../../../openafs-1.5.77-doc.tar.bz2
>> >     Building version UNKNOWN
>>
>> The version string comes out of running
>> "/path/to/src/build-tools/git-version /path/to/src" where /path/to/src
>> is the untarred src tarball. If you untar it and run that command, does
>> it actually give you UNKNOWN ? It shouldn't if you have a .version in
>> that same directory.
>>
>> It's possible it's screwing up because we don't deal with path names
>> robustly or something (paths containing whitespace etc). You're one of
>> the very few people (I think) that have tried to run this procedure
>> after some changes to how version information is kept, btw, which is why
>> the process may seem rather fragile. I've never even tried doing this
>> with a non-UNKNOWN version.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Deason
>> [email protected]
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