Re: libexec and multi-arch

2018-02-11 Thread Jeff Johnson
> On Feb 5, 2018, at 5:46 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 15:20:55 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >>> No, it only hidden the problem behind getconf binary being handled >>> _somehow_. I once even wondered how this is done, apparently rpm is

Re: libexec and multi-arch

2018-02-11 Thread Jeff Johnson
> On Feb 5, 2018, at 3:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > I'd probably argue that libexec should have the same multi-arch > handling that (s)bin does (primary arch "wins" and secondary arches > are ignored), though last I checked this isn't specific to paths and > should Just Work(TM). > > And the

Re: libexec and multi-arch

2018-02-05 Thread Jeff Johnson
> On Feb 5, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:47:32 +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote: >> >> Using lib/lib64/libx32 instead of libexec was much smarter in this case. > > No, it only hidden the problem behind getconf binary being handled > _somehow_. I once even

RPM+MQTT in rpm-5.4.18 ...

2016-07-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
rpm-5.4.18 (soon) will embed the paho-mqtt client to do MQTT messaging. I will likely do a snapshot of 5.4.18 as soon as I haul out some MQTT debugging trash and repair portability damage. TL;DR Don't install paho-mqtt-1.1.0 and/or build rpm-5.4.18 --without-mqtt and ignore the rest of th

Re: [packages/mysql] - don't mark db error messages files with lang as these depend on db client settings and not db serv

2016-07-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 6, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 06 of July 2016, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> vote: no >> >> %lang has always been used in system way you want locale/localization >> stuff installed > > mysql is kind of special that doesn't fit well into typical %lang rules. >

Re: python packaging

2016-06-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 20, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Jacek Konieczny wrote: > >> reality is that we have no consistency, > > Some people seem to don't care at all. :-( > I am afraid, that whatever scheme we decide on, people will still commit > crap. That is minority, but quite annoying. > Distro package naming is

Re: rpm -Uhv --oldpackage loses configs

2016-06-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:45 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 07.06.2016 17:39, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> Were the files present on the file system (presumably not, but I'd like >> confirmation)? > yes of course they were present. otherwise there would not be messages from > rp

Re: rpm -Uhv --oldpackage loses configs

2016-06-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > >> Do the repackaged rpm’s contain those files.? > > the config files are present in .rpm file and in rpmdb where i installed the > .rpm file: > > # rpm -qplvc 1465233457/pam-1.1.8-8.x86_64.rpm|grep auth > -rw-r--r--1 rootroot

Re: rpm -Uhv --oldpackage loses configs

2016-06-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 07.06.2016 17:31, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> Its still not clear to me whether the new package files were installed or >> not. > they were not > > mv -i will ask to overwrite files, it never asked ... so... > Yes I read the man page. Were

rpm needs db-6.1.26+ patch (was Re: python3 optional deps)

2016-06-05 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 1, 2016, at 6:29 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > 1. were in middle of 5.4.15 -> 5.4.17 change The attached patch (for db-6.1.26/db-6.2.23) is necessary with rpm-5.4.x). Earlier versions of db-x.y.z need no modification. hth 73 de Jeff == jbj13.patch

Re: ldconfig forgotten

2016-05-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 31, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 01.06.2016 00:47, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> Verified ... how? > in first post i said it's 100% reproducible, > so, > > i applied your patch to rpm, > rebuilt rpm, installed > > and retried the 100% repr

Re: ldconfig forgotten

2016-05-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 31, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 31.05.2016 23:37, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On May 31, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >>> i prefer reliability over broken optimization. >>> >> So disable the optimization. I'm quite sure

Re: ldconfig forgotten

2016-05-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 31, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > i prefer reliability over broken optimization. > So disable the optimization. I'm quite sure I have described how to disable the optimization on this (and other) mailing lists in the past 10 years. 73 de Jeff ___

Re: ldconfig forgotten

2016-05-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 31, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 31.05.2016 09:45, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> [root@57c8cccdc671 bin]# poldek -u procps > oh, and it's 100% reproducible: > Yes. And it has been discussed many times over the last 15y, several times on this list. Short answer: Disable

Re: man-pages-4.05-1.noarch conflicts with lirc-0.9.3a-1.x86_64

2016-05-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 10, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 10.05.2016 09:12, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >>> Fixed in lirc-0.9.3a-2 / man-pages-4.05-2. >>> > >> Is file conflict detection an RPM misfeature? > no. it's packaging mistake (two packages installing same file path) > Of course it is a packagi

Re: python3 optional deps

2016-05-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 6, 2016, at 3:41 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 06.05.2016 10:11, Jacek Konieczny wrote: >> >> I guess the python dependency generator should be fixed in our RPM, to >> ignore the 'extras' dependencies (or to make them 'suggest', skipping the >> ':python_version' ones. > is there python

Re: how rpm destroyed my private key

2016-04-28 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 28, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 27.04.2016 21:09, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> What I am suggesting is using --justdb --noscripts --notriggers on the v2 >> package before attempting an upgrade. > > you're solving the problem in wrong order.

Re: how rpm destroyed my private key

2016-04-28 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 28, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > but rpm i use to manage configuration and expect %noreplace to mean "do not > replace the file". that one technical detail makes it behave differently on > high level does not change my expectation. i'd rather consider it flaw in > impleme

Re: how rpm destroyed my private key

2016-04-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 27, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > So why are you claiming RPM "destroyed" your secret_key.php file when you are > misusing > %config(noreplace) > with expectations of behavior that have never been implemented, and cannot be > imple

Re: how rpm destroyed my private key

2016-04-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 27, 2016, at 10:12 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 27.04.2016 16:55, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:13 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> >>> and it did it again! >>> >> You are smart enough to identify a better solution for your problems than

Re: how rpm destroyed my private key

2016-04-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:13 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > and it did it again! > You are smart enough to identify a better solution for your problems than blaming RPM for destroying your files ... again ... and again. 73 de Jeff ___ pld-devel-en mailing

Re: rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm, take 3

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 24.04.2016 22:23, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> When was the last time a distro rebuilt a package to correct a spelling >> error typo in, say, >> the Swahili translation? > > fedora rebuilds *all* packages for each re

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 24.04.2016 21:08, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> The fix is --without-sasl2 (not --without-sasl). My brain fart, now verified. > > thanks. indeed that's the option. > > seems libacl is also new library depend

Re: rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm, take 3

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: ... > > I think that I18N could (and should) be done better in RPM. Meanwhile > devising a transparent > "legacy compatible" retrofit for RPM_I18NSTRING_TYPE is/was the necessary > first step to attempting > a

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > >> On 24.04.2016 18:28, Jeff Johnson wrote: >>> So specifiying --without-sasl when building is the only (well you could >>> configure/install sasl >&

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > (aside) > BTW, there is one other 1-line patch to rpmio/pkgio.c needed to plug a 16b > memory leak > in rdSignature(). The final code should look like > > ... >/* All packages should have RPMSIGTAG_M

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 24.04.2016 18:28, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> So specifiying --without-sasl when building is the only (well you could >> configure/install sasl >> correctly before executing rpm too) way to remove the syslog'd message

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> >> something logs to syslog at this time: >> Apr 24 12:48:27 new-server rpm: looking for plugins in '/usr/lib/sasl2', >> failed to open directory, error: No such file or directory >> > > Tha

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:03 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 24.04.2016 12:51, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> >> anyway, i finally installed the built version. the sasl2 error is probably >> from somewhere else. >> >> 12:48:25 root[load: 0.00]@new-server /# rpm -q rpm >> rpm-5.4.16-0.1.i686 > There are 1

Fwd: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
Begin forwarded message: > From: Elan Ruusamäe > Subject: Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot > Date: April 24, 2016 5:51:58 AM EDT > To: "PLD: Developers list (English)" > Reply-To: "PLD: Developers list (English)" > > On 20.04.2016 15:38, Jeff Johnson wrote

Re: rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm, take 3

2016-04-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 24, 2016, at 6:29 AM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> There is a 3rd snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at >> >> >> http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT//rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm >> &g

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 20, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 20.04.2016 18:01, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> On 20.04.2016 15:38, Jeff Johnson wrote: >>> There is a final snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at >>> >>>http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SN

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-04-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
to enable link time optimization (-flto) and run-time checking (-fsanitize=address et al) have been added. 73 de Jeff On Mar 15, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > There is a snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at > > > http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/

Re: rpm loses %configs

2016-04-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 19, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > i'm pretty sure this has happened before, just did not payed attention > I believe you. Meanwhile ... > so, if i use --nodeps rpm forgets it has to put .rpmnew? > and instead no config files left on the original path (mv -i would had said >

Re: [packages/file] - this version breaks rpmbuild, good testcase is gnome-initial-setup package - rel 1.1

2016-04-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 18, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > pld rpm links with system libmagic, not using bundled version. i think this > is something broken on library level. > Perhaps the libmagic code is broken, yes. Usually the issue is new definitions, which are increasingly using *RE pattern

Re: [packages/file] - this version breaks rpmbuild, good testcase is gnome-initial-setup package - rel 1.1

2016-04-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 17, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > I removed it from ftp and downgraded on builders, building > gnome-initial-setup or jbig2dec causes rpm to hang indefinitely on > "processing files" step. > The coupling between rpmbuild <-> file is through /etc/magic rules (whatever path is

Re: rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm, take 3

2016-03-28 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Mar 23, 2016, at 5:37 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 22.03.2016 01:44, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> There is a 3rd snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at >> >> >> http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT//rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm > > it co

rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm, take 3

2016-03-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
There is a 3rd snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT//rpm-5.4.16-0.20160321.src.rpm This addresses the following issues: 1) mongoc.h needed #include to rebuild with PLD configuration 2) build with or without in "system.h"

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot, take 2

2016-03-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
E next. hth 73 de Jeff On Mar 18, 2016, at 3:49 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > I have uploaded another snapshot release that addresses > all the issues you have reported: > > rpm-5.4.16-0.20160318.src.rpm > > The issue of garbled text is both locale and rpm version depen

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-03-19 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 16.03.2016 18:28, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> There is a recent API change in libtomcrypt (like last few months) > > ah, tomcrypt, > > i think will switch to previous method in pld for now for maximum > compatib

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-03-19 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 15.03.2016 22:27, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> There is a snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at >> >> >> http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT/rpm-5.4.16-0.20160315.src.rpm > > have

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-03-19 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 15.03.2016 22:27, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> 3) (recommended) rpm-5.4.16 uses db-6.1.23 (not 6.1.26) with >> DB_MULTIVERSION and DB_TXN_SNAPSHOT. >> DB_TXN_SNAPSHOT avoids deadlocks with copy

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot, take 2

2016-03-19 Thread Jeff Johnson
I will add shortly. hth 73 de Jeff On Mar 15, 2016, at 6:14 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 15.03.2016 22:27, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> There is a snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at >> >> >> http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT/rpm-5.4.16-0.2

Re: rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-03-19 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Mar 16, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 15.03.2016 22:27, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> There is a snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at >> >> >> http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT/rpm-5.4.16-0.20160315.src.rpm > > some rpmi

rpm-5.4.16 snapshot

2016-03-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
There is a snapshot release of rpm-5.4.16 now available at http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.4/SNAPSHOT/rpm-5.4.16-0.20160315.src.rpm This is the first SRPM built by itself that is headed for release in the next few weeks that is being provided as a public reference point for integration an

Re: popt warning

2016-02-23 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > > i first noticed it in a code that was invoked from in bash prompt: > > rpm --define "_specdir $PWD" --specfile $specfile -q --qf '%{VERSION}\n' | > head -n1 > > but later i noticed rpm/rpmbuild (invoked from pld builder script) the same >

Re: popt warning

2016-02-23 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Feb 23, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 23.02.2016 19:42, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> >>> sometimes i see such message when building packages: >>> >>> warning: existing POPT configuratio

Re: popt warning

2016-02-23 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > sometimes i see such message when building packages: > > warning: existing POPT configuration file > "/usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt:/usr/lib/rpm/%{_target}/rpmpopt:/etc/rpm/rpmpopt.*:/etc/rpm/rpm > popt:/etc/rpm/%{_target}/rpmpopt:~/.rpmpopt" considere

Re: packages: etckeeper/etckeeper.spec - Up to 0.56

2011-08-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Pawel Golaszewski wrote: > > Maybe each file in filesystem? :P > That won't work: one needs to put every byte in a virtualized environment with full hardware enforced isolation to please everyone. And RPM will *still* have extraordinary abilities to be able to con

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Artur Wroblewski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> >> On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Artur Wroblewski wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jacek Konieczny wrote: >>> [...] >>>

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Artur Wroblewski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jacek Konieczny wrote: > [...] >> We lose: >> - a little bit of the disk space >> - some 'purity' some people see in not distributing 'sources' > > IMHO, it was not about purity but quite practical aspect of

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 17:04:02 +0200, Tomasz Pala wrote: > * I had an idea once upon a time to verify content of repackaged files against original digest, I really miss this feature in rpm (rpm -Vp verifies package against fi

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:57:40 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> (aside) >> Do you actually use repackaged packages? For what purpose? > > Unfortunately yes, for restoring working set - too often... > And during tes

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 07:19:34 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> You also need to decide whether all compilations are on >> the build system or after installation: there are different >> implementations. >> >>

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 07:21:35 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >>>> compiles stuff? If so, can we then launch a suid helper that injects >>>> the newly created files into the rpm package that contained the &

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:35:17 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >> compiles stuff? If so, can we then launch a suid helper that injects >> the newly created files into the rpm package that contained the >> original .py? > > OMG... > Please don'

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:35 AM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >> In case some automated mechanism is provided, in the future, for keeping >> the compiled python code files in the RPM database without listing them >> in the spec files, we loose nothing by having the files there already >> (by explicitly l

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:44 AM, Jacek Konieczny wrote: > > Ok, you may be right. But what than? We don't even have an idea how > should the proper rpm solution work and no volunteers to design and code > it. At the same time Python 3.2 is waiting for being included in PLD, Um, that isn't true: I d

Re: *.py packaging, again

2011-07-13 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Jakub Bogusz wrote: > > I don't like the idea of __pycache__ not managed by rpm (or not We likely disagree on the details, perhaps sharply, of __pycache__ managed by rpm but not on the general goal. > maintained with rpm database in case of more robust post

Re: Deps in TH

2011-06-04 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 4, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:17:20 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: >>> >>> We don't have such thing. Feel free to implement (cvs/pld-ftp-admin) but >>&g

Re: Deps in TH

2011-06-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > We don't have such thing. Feel free to implement (cvs/pld-ftp-admin) but note > that in needs to be fast (and speed is the major problem). > Its rather easy to do rpm -ivh --dbpath /somewhere/rpmdb --justdb --nonothing *.rpm

Re: *.la files in xorg* packages

2011-05-30 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 30, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Monday 30 of May 2011, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> On May 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: >>> On Monday 30 of May 2011, Tomasz Pala wrote: >>>> While updating my system I've noticed that

Re: *.la files in xorg* packages

2011-05-30 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Monday 30 of May 2011, Tomasz Pala wrote: >> While updating my system I've noticed that xorg* packages still got >> *.la files, while they all got *.pc as well. >> Are there any other (not discussed before) reasons not to remove them?

Re: RPM vs xattrs [was: python3.2+ compiled files]

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > BTW it's you who wrote we've got good engineering practices often. > Let's just leave it here: PLD is my favorite distro, solves problems (like *.pyo files changing in python 3.2+), devises fixes, and moves on months and

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 19:05:33 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> FOr a distro containing >1M files, empty string tags require (at least) '\0'. >> >> But ~1Mb (for a 1M file distro) additional info is m

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 17:09:54 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> And I'm not disagreeing. How rpm should handle xattr's like >> that capabilities you want is a whole different matter. >> >> Attaching Yet

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 16:32:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >>> And I've shown that this "way" is wrong - having xattrs outside package >>> manager is bad design per se. >> >> You WILL have

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 15:56:04 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >>>>>> There's no known reason why xattr's can't be done in other ways. >>>>> >>>>> Like what? >>>>

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 15:34:55 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >>>> There's no known reason why xattr's can't be done in other ways. >>> >>> Like what? >> >> Like not hav

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 15:26:46 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> There's no known reason why xattr's can't be done in other ways. > > Like what? > Like not having RPM attach xattr's. 5+ years ago, I ha

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-09 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 9, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > 2011/4/9 Elan Ruusamäe : >> so my vote goes for keeping the old .py[co] method, and perhaps change to >> make is package only .pyc, it is rather ratre somebody invokes python with >> -O option so the .pyo is to be needed. or why it was packaged

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> I see a problem with /usr/bin/__pycache__/* and the rest of >> the python litter on a file system. While __pycache__ subdirs "works" in >> python

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Jacek Konieczny wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 02:38:49PM +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: >>> Except in Python you can execute/import .py files just fine. If the >>> program is not closed source, .pyc/.pyo/__py

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:00 AM, an...@green.mif.pg.gda.pl wrote: > Jeff Johnson wrote: >> Another approach would be to not bother with static *.py* content >> packaged in *.rpm at all, but rather let python establish its own >> format/implementation for install/upgrade

Re: python3.2+ compiled files

2011-04-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >>> and sources are often the only source of (up to date) >>> documentation. >> So the source code is the documentation. What else is new? Are you >> simply trolling, or just are too ignorant to be aware that's also what >> happens with all oth

Re: rpm fails on upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Nov 20, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Jan Palus wrote: > Recently I added small patch to python-paramiko and built for testing, but > upgrading failed with: > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file > /usr/share/python2.7/site-packages/paramiko-1.7.6-py2.7.egg-info: cpio: > rename failed - Is a dir

Re: packages: dovecot/dovecot.spec - TODO was accidentally removed (sorry), but...

2010-10-30 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Paweł Zuzelski wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, caleb wrote: > >> Author: calebDate: Thu Oct 28 09:53:02 2010 GMT >> Module: packages Tag: HEAD >> Log message: >> - TODO was accidentally removed (sorry), but having [perc

Re: rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Bartosz Taudul wrote: >>> New group hierarchy proposition can be found at >>> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/PLD-doc/nowe-grupy?rev=HEAD. >> This tree is as good as any other I've seen, certainly far far >> better than synaptic/aptitude choices. > It was bas

Re: rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Bartosz Taudul wrote: > 2010/6/24 Jeff Johnson : >>> Why do we care about RPM groups? >> What else would we discuss if RPMTAG_GROUP did not exist? > I was referring to the general shit state of the group hierarchy in > PLD. Basicall

Re: rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Artur Wroblewski wrote: > 2010/6/24 Jeff Johnson : >> >> On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Paweł Zuzelski wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jeff Johnson wrote: > [...] >>>> Did Poland do well in South Africa? >&

Re: rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Bartosz Taudul wrote: > 2010/6/24 Jeff Johnson : >>> Why do we care about RPM groups? >> What else would we discuss if RPMTAG_GROUP did not exist? > I was referring to the general shit state of the group hierarchy in > PLD. Basicall

Re: rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Paweł Zuzelski wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> What else would we discuss if RPMTAG_GROUP did not exist? > > Sorry, I don't get it. > Translation from obscure jbj-speak: RPMTAG_GROUP is utterly broken

Re: rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Bartosz Taudul wrote: > 2010/6/24 Paweł Zuzelski : >> Any comments? > Why do we care about RPM groups? > What else would we discuss if RPMTAG_GROUP did not exist? Did Poland do well in South Africa? 73 de Jeff ___ pld-de

Re: poldek -r broken again?

2010-05-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 2, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 02:57:39PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> >>> chroot(".") = 0 >>> -- chroots back to /tmp ! >>>This way /tmp becomes new root. >&

Re: poldek -r broken again?

2010-05-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 2, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 02:22:03PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> >> On May 2, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: >> >>> >>> Makes rpm lose track of current root directory. That is, it is u

Re: poldek -r broken again?

2010-05-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 2, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 05:38:14PM +0200, Paweł Zuzelski wrote: >> or I'm missing something? >> >> mkdir /th >> poldek --update --upa >> rpm --initdb -r /th >> poldek -r /th >> poldek> install geninitrd >> (...) >> error: open of >> /root/tm

Re: rpm: POSIX capabilities/ACLs?

2010-02-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:04:07 +0100, Zbyniu Krzystolik wrote: > >>> Anyone knows if it is or is going to be possible in rpm to store xattrs? >> >> Not possible now. > > And how about The Other RPM? This is a must-be feature and sooner or > l

Re: RFC: Convert bconds to autoconf-like options.

2009-11-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Nov 18, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > > I only really care about %__enable_disable macro which replaces such > obscure PLD idiom: > --%{?with_runtime:en}%{!?with_runtime:dis}able-runtime-cpudetection > with much more readable: > %{__enable_disable runtime runtime-cpu

Re: RFC: Convert bconds to autoconf-like options.

2009-11-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
Before you get into a litter of additional macros for bconds, please note that when originally implemented (by PLD, always first ;-) bcond's were intended as booleans. When bconds were picked up by RPM using --with/--without popt aliases (that are essentially just --define wrappings to conventiona

Re: configure --host/build/target

2009-10-11 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > Does anyone remember why we use such configure macro: > > ./configure \ >--host=%{_target_platform} \ >--build=%{_target_platform} \ > > instead of > > ./configure \ >--host=%{_host_platform} \ >--build=%{_build_platform

Re: verify rpm package contents

2009-05-13 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 13, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Tomasz Pala wrote: > How to verify digest of files in rpm package (like when repackaged > modified files)? For example I've got: > > ~: rpm -qplv xorg-proto-xproto-devel-7.0.14-1.i586.rpm > -rw-r--r--1 rootroot 167477 Oct 28 2008 /usr/ > include/X1

Re: topdir macro

2009-05-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 3, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > why not have such default macros: > > %_topdir%{expand:%%global _topdir %(d=$([ -d ../../ > packages ] && (cd ../.. && pwd)); d=${d:-$([ -d ../packages ] && > (cd ..; pwd))}; echo ${d:-$HOME/rpm})}%_topdir > %_specdir %{_topdir}/

Re: INFO: cvs downtime

2009-05-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
On May 2, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: >> >> I don't want any sources to be fetched. > > those are "patches" not "sources" > > indeed --fetch-only-spec option would be nice > Likely achievable with L and R macro overrides, and a popt alias to hide the --define. (3+ years since "fetch"

Re: Merging PLD patches for RPM @rpm5.org

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 18, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Radoslaw Zielinski wrote: > Jeff Johnson [18-01-2009 16:31]: > [...] >> Is the AUTODEP_PKGNAMES portion of the rpm-pld-autodep.patch, which >> maps >> dependencies back to package names, actually useful/used by PLD? The > > No. >

Merging PLD patches for RPM @rpm5.org

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Johnson
I'm actively merging PLD patches for RPM from SOURCES found at :pserver:c...@anoncvs.pld-linux.org:/cvsroot into @rpm5.org CVS HEAD over the next couple months. My immediate goal is to get global dependency filtering through exclude patterns into @rpm5.org. The rpm-pld-autodep.patch is c

Re: TeXLive

2008-12-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Łukasz Jernaś wrote: 2008/12/7 Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Heck even gasoline is now US$1.60/per gallon now ... Well, where most PLD devs/users live it's about 4.61498478 USD per gallon of super... The more interesting questions are

Re: TeXLive

2008-12-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:37 PM, wrobell wrote: [1] my desktop machine is so huuug, baby Well I dunno nothin' about your desktop. But my desktop has accumulated 1,337,924.20 cobblestones patiently grinding away, mostly [EMAIL PROTECTED], through BOINC. I hope to contribute 0.005% to

Re: TeXLive

2008-12-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:35 PM, wrobell wrote: But points noted fer sure, TeX is not easy packaging, never has been. indeed :) Note I dinna say either of (Diskspace|bandwidth) is cheap. Being stoopid is way more costly than commodity items. Ugly and evil have the same flaws. He

Re: TeXLive

2008-12-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Dec 6, 2008, at 4:41 PM, wrobell wrote: [1] my asus eee pc has 4GB of storage, so don't event try to tell me that sdd space is cheap [2] i am accessing internet via 3G, so please don't tell me that bandwith is cheap, as well Well asus eee is not exactly representative hqrdwar

Re: CVSROOT: users - make AIDA Th aliases - sorted

2008-11-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > What's AIDA? > The wife of Rademes? ;-) ;-) > Please fix sorting, you broke it. > Those high notes are ever so hard to reach if you are merely a contralto ... 73 de Jeff ___ pld-devel-en

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