Re: [Fink-devel] Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9

[Max Horn]

Dear Hanspeter,

On 17.08.2014, at 21:18, Hanspeter Niederstrasser f...@snaggledworks.com 
wrote:

 Dear Fink developers and users,
 
 I've just published the results of a buildworld run on a 10.9 system. 
 The buildworld tries to build every package in the Fink tree from 
 scratch on a clean environment and so will find packaging problems that 
 may be hidden on a production system.

Thanks for that!

 
 The general report broken down by results category is here:
 http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/report.html
 
 The listing by maintainer is here:
 http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/maintindex.html

On both of these, there is a link to failure category definitions, pointing to

  http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/filters.xml

but this gives me a 404 error.


In any case, I fixed some of the issues you pointed out (in sdl2, fflas-ffpack, 
mc, the-silver-searcher) but now am mostly left with 
failures/project/insufficient_permission failures, but I am not quite sure 
what the failure indicates. Perhaps this:

  cp: /sw/share/info/dir.bak: Permission denied

I think this is caused by the install-info tool and the fact that the affected 
packages (e.g. grep) use the InfoDocs fields. I don't think a package author 
can do much about that, can they? As such, perhaps you could check if the above 
line is the only one with permission denied, and in that case, demote the 
failure to a warning ?

Cheers,
Max
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Re: [Fink-devel] Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9

[Daniel Macks]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:47:58 +0200, Max Horn m...@quendi.de wrote:
Dear Hanspeter,

 On 17.08.2014, at 21:18, Hanspeter Niederstrasser 
 f...@snaggledworks.com wrote:

  Dear Fink developers and users,
   I've just published the results of a buildworld run on a 10.9 
 system.  The buildworld tries to build every package in the Fink 
 tree from  scratch on a clean environment and so will find packaging 
 problems that  may be hidden on a production system. 

 Thanks for that!

   The general report broken down by results category is here:
  http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/report.html
   The listing by maintainer is here:
  http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/maintindex.html

 On both of these, there is a link to failure category definitions, 
 pointing to

   http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2014-07-24/out/filters.xml

 but this gives me a 404 error. 


 In any case, I fixed some of the issues you pointed out (in sdl2, 
 fflas-ffpack, mc, the-silver-searcher) but now am mostly left with 
 failures/project/insufficient_permission failures, but I am not 
 quite sure what the failure indicates. Perhaps this:

   cp: /sw/share/info/dir.bak: Permission denied

 I think this is caused by the install-info tool and the fact that the 
 affected packages (e.g. grep) use the InfoDocs fields. I don't 
 think a package author can do much about that, can they? As such, 
 perhaps you could check if the above line is the only one with 
 permission denied, and in that case, demote the failure to a 
 warning ?

In a packaging context, install-info should be deferred to the actual 
live install (.deb - %p) rather than during the writing to the staging 
directory (InstallScript - %i). InfoDocs automatically does the 
former. Some build systems automatically disable install-info in the %i 
context, but others need to be disabled explicitly by the maintainer. 
It's always doable, but there are many variations among the build tools 
(sometimes an autoconf flag, sometimes a make variable, sometimes 
manually commenting out part of a makefile). 

dan

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