On 2018-07-05 10:14 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 07/05/2018 02:50 AM, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> > The polkit file mentioned in the origin thread is used to support
> > unprivillaged user running `meson install` with polkit support. It shows
> > a better prompt ("Authentication is required to install this project") for
> > root password. With "python3 setup.py install" this rule doesn't work.
> > So I think we have the options:
> >
> > 1. Keep "python3 setup.py install", and remove the polkit rule. Without it
> > polkit authentication would still work, just with a defaulted prompt.
> > 2. Use "--root=dest" and copy the files from "dest" to "/". It would place
> > meson scripts and data into standard location without wrapping, and enable
> > the polkit rule to work.
> > 3. Keep "python3 setup.py install", but fix the polkit rule with:
> > mv -v /usr/lib/python3.x/site-packages/meson-*/.../actions/* \
> > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions
> > sed 's@/usr/bin/meson@/usr/lib/python3.6/.../scripts/meson@' \
> > -i /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.mesonbuild.install.policy
> >
> > I don't like the idea to leave an useless polkit rule in the LFS system.
> > If we wish to keep "python3 setup.py install", we should either fix it or
> > remove it.
>
> OK, You've convinced me. I'll do it as a destdir install. Do we need
> to use a sed to add -C to mesonbuild/minstall.py? Or just wait for the
> next version?
>
> -- Bruce
A patch is attached here. It contains a sed to add '-C'.
meson-0.47.1 should be released soon. I think it would be released
earlier than LFS 8.3. I'll keep an eye on it.
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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
From 4e542a4623248308fc49f94bfefdc8c30ce76ac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 03:58:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update to meson-0.47.0
---
chapter06/meson.xml | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
packages.ent | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/chapter06/meson.xml b/chapter06/meson.xml
index 12b88720..c06bfdfe 100644
--- a/chapter06/meson.xml
+++ b/chapter06/meson.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Meson</title>
+ <para>Make a fix from upstream:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '309 [email protected]()@-C, &@' mesonbuild/minstall.py</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>
@@ -48,14 +52,25 @@
<para>Install the package:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install --root=dest
+cp -rv dest/* /</userinput></screen>
- <para>At last, move Meson man pages to correct location:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.6.egg/share/man/man1/*.1 \
- /usr/share/man/man1
-rm -r /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.6.egg/share</userinput></screen>
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the install parameters:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--root=dest</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>By default <command>python3 setup.py install</command>
+ installs various files (such as man pages) into Python Eggs.
+ With an alternated root, <command>setup.py</command> installs
+ these files into a standard hierarchy. Then we can just copy
+ the hierarchy so the files would be in the standard location.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
</sect2>
@@ -68,7 +83,7 @@ rm -r /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.6.egg/share</us
<seglistitem>
<seg>meson, mesonconf, mesonintrospect, mesontest, and wraptool</seg>
- <seg>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.6.egg</seg>
+ <seg>/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.6.egg-info and /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mesonbuild</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index dd68e76d..28b6d51b 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -470,8 +470,8 @@
<!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-du "27 MB">
<!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY meson-version "0.46.1">
-<!ENTITY meson-size "1,176 KB">
+<!ENTITY meson-version "0.47.0">
+<!ENTITY meson-size "1,217 KB">
<!ENTITY meson-url "&github;/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/&meson-version;/meson-&meson-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY meson-md5 "1698f6526574839de5dcdc45e3f7d582">
<!ENTITY meson-home "https://mesonbuild.com";>
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