Re: [suggest] problem with perl-DateTime version numbers

2011-03-23 Thread Steve Huff

On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:52 AM, Matthew Vale wrote:

 I have discovered a problem with the version numbers listed for Perl-DateTime
 The latest version in your repo is 0.53-1
 Unfortunately yum is unable to install this version because you have in the 
 repo 0.4305-1 which is considered higher than the 0.53-1.
 This is because the version number is being treated as a rpm version string 
 rather than a floating point number so considered greater (4305  53)
 
 I have no experience with building rpms so rebuilding the rpms to expand out 
 to 4 digit version numbers is not really an option for me


hi Matthew!  

thanks for your report!  we need to pull that problematic RPM from the 
repository.

for the time being, however, you don't need to rebuild the RPMs to work around 
this problem; just place the following line in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo 
under the [rpmforge] stanza:

exclude = perl-DateTime-0.4305*

-steve

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Re: [suggest] perl: Math::Random::Secure

2010-12-28 Thread Steve Huff

On Dec 28, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:

 Hello! Could I get Math::Random::Secure and all of its dependencies
 packaged? If there are any problems with packaging it, let me know--I'm
 the maintainer of the module.
 
   http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Random-Secure/

heya Max!

off the top of my head, the first issue (and it's a minor one) is that 
Dist::Zilla inserts a dependency on ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.31, and el5 provides 
ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.30.  i've been manually patching that out in specfiles 
for other modules, and i haven't seen it cause a problem yet, but this behavior 
is making me dislike Dist::Zilla.  if it's not too much trouble, can you make 
it not do that?

thanks and happy new year,  
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Re: [suggest] perl-Devel-NYTProf update

2010-07-29 Thread Steve Huff

On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:55 AM, David Steinbrunner wrote:

 We currently have Devel::NYTProf 3.11 while the latest on CPAN is 4.04.
 This is a request to sync up with CPAN.

David,  

i've committed an updated spec.  thanks for the tip!

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[suggest] Re: perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.1000-1.el5.rf.noarch: glibc_date_format missing

2010-07-15 Thread Steve Huff

On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:

 Can't locate object method glibc_date_format via package 
 DateTime::Locale::en_US at 
 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm line 780
 
 After downgrading to perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.1000-1.el5.rf.noarch 
 everything worked again.
 
 Is this a problem in perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.2000-1.el5.rf.noarch,  
 some missing dependency or some misconfiguration on my side?


the issue is the following:

1) the DateTime-Locale Perl distribution is generally versioned like 0.XX, 0.XY 
etc., as you can see from the Changelog:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DROLSKY/DateTime-Locale-0.45/Changes

however, on May 19, 2008, the developer released version 0.4001, intending that 
version to sort between versions 0.40 and 0.41.  from a Perlish standpoint, 
this is not unreasonable.

2) rpm's version comparison algorithm, however, sorts 0.4001 after 0.41 (Google 
for rpmvercmp if you want a more detailed explanation of why this is).

3) RPMforge has a perl-DateTime-Locale-0.4001 package, and many people 
(including you) have it installed on your system.

4) DateTime-Format-Strptime = 1.2000 requires DateTime-Locale = 0.45.

5) RPMforge has a perl-DateTime-Locale-0.45 package; however, yum (and rpm) 
don't see it as an available update because of point #2 above.

so, what's the fix for this situation?  one fix is as follows:

$ yumdownloader perl-DateTime-Locale-0.45
$ sudo rpm -e --nodeps perl-DateTime-Locale perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime
$ sudo rpm -U ./perl-DateTime-Locale-0.45*
$ sudo yum install perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime

after this, put an exclusion in your yum config so that your yum won't see the 
spurious perl-DateTime-Locale-0.4001 package.  we intend to remove 
perl-DateTime-Locale-0.4001 from the repo entirely, and i'll post to the users 
list when that is done.

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Re: [suggest] Newer driver version in dkms-nvidia-x11-drv?

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Huff

On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

 Therefore, unless you have a very important reason for using RPMForge
 dkms packages you really ought to migrate to ELRepo kmod packages
 instead.


cf. 
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improved-rhel-centos-and-scientific-linux-hardware-support

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Re: [suggest] perl-Date-Manip

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Huff

On Jun 29, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Aaron Scamehorn wrote:

 Would it be possible to get a more recent version of Date::Manip?
 
 Current in rpmforge is 5.54.  Latest Date::Manip is 6.11.

Date-Manip-6.11 requires Perl 5.10, so we can't provide that at present; check 
back after el6 is out.

i've checked in an update that brings the package to 5.56.

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Re: [suggest] Re: Latest XML::LibXSLT needed

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Huff

On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Christoph Maser wrote:

 As I am for a much more strict policy at rpmforge I vote for a complete
 removal of perl-XML-LibXMl and perl-XML-LibXSLT or at most provide an
 old version for perl-XML-LibXSLT wich works with the perl-XML-LibXML
 version from base. It is much better to not have a particular piece then
 to have a broken version.


Chris,  

i did some digging into this (see SVN r8817), and we need at the very minimum:

perl-XML-LibXML = 1.69
perl-XML-LibXML-Common (bring it back from the vault)
perl-XML-LibXSLT = 1.63

and we need Dag to remove any later versions from the repo.

if we want to roll all the way back to the versions from upstream, we have to 
go back to perl-XML-LibXSLT = 1.59 (there's already a spec for this in SVN).  
for packages that are as widely used as these, i'm OK with offering versions 
that replace packages from upstream, since their absence is really crippling.

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Re: [suggest] Update: bzr

2010-05-13 Thread Steve Huff

On May 13, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:

   Hey hey. Could somebody update the bzr package to the latest stable 
 release? At the moment, that's 2.1.0.
 
   It would be really helpful for us, because 2.1.0 fixes a bug that 
 causes loggerhead (the bzr web viewer) to crash frequently and need 
 restarting.

updated in SVN.

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Re: [suggest] memcached

2010-02-08 Thread Steve Huff


On Feb 8, 2010, at 3:08 PM, David Steinbrunner wrote:

Any chance we can get the latest 1.4.x release packaged or at least  
the

latest 1.2.x maintenance release?



1.4.4 is in SVN.  thanks for your request!

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Re: [suggest] geoip and geoip-devel updates?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Huff


On Feb 2, 2010, at 4:47 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:


Sorry for maybe being unclear. I'm not speaking about the builddeps of
geoip, but about the packages which need geoip to build. In case if
these exist, they will have to be updated accordingly.



a brief survey indicates that the only packages that depend on GeoIP  
are tor, perl-Geo-IP, perl-Geo-IP-PurePerl, python-geoip and ntop, and  
ntop seems to download GeoIP as an additional Source: and do some  
internal shenanigans with it, so that's not really relevant to this  
discussion.


i'll bump geoip and python-geoip and see if i see any problems.

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Re: [suggest] geoip and geoip-devel updates?

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Huff


On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Steve Huff wrote:


i'll bump geoip and python-geoip and see if i see any problems.



looks like a smooth upgrade; i've committed the changes.  thanks for  
your request, Michael!


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Re: [suggest] optipng

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Huff


On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:31 AM, David Steinbrunner wrote:


Simply requesting a package for this project:

http://optipng.sourceforge.net/



that was pretty straightforward; committed to svn.

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Re: [suggest] rrdtool-1.3.8 for el4

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Huff


On Jan 14, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:

Is it possible to update the rpmforge version of in el4 to  
rrdtool-1.3.8?


An epel4 mock build of rrdtool-1.3.8-2.rf.src.rpm (which exists in  
the el4 src directory) seems to build fine, given a backport of  
intltool from el5 is available.



Ingvar,

our svn currently has a spec for rrdtool-1.4.2; looking at the  
buildlogs, it looks like recent versions of rrdtool haven't been  
building for el4 because of some missing evolution28 libraries.


Christoph, do you know what's going on here?  You're the one who seems  
to have been updating rrdtool lately.


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Re: [suggest] Advanced Policy Firewall RPM?

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Huff


On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Amos Shapira wrote:


Could you please package Advanced Policy Firewall
(http://www.rfxn.com/projects/advanced-policy-firewall/) for CentOS?



i've committed the package.

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Re: [suggest] OpenSSH 4.9 (or later?)

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Huff


On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:49 AM, Victor wrote:

Just wondering what the thought is with having OpenSSH 4.9 or later  
included as available download on RPM (or even on the official  
CentOS repo's... but don't think i can request that here).



as a general principle, we try not to explicitly clobber packages that  
come from upstream, and a package that's as critical as ssh strikes me  
as particularly untouchable.  i'd recommend that you request its  
inclusion in Fedora, so that it can eventually make its way into RHEL.


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Re: [suggest] perl-Captcha-reCAPTCHA

2009-11-05 Thread Steve Huff


On Nov 5, 2009, at 3:25 PM, David Steinbrunner wrote:


Just requesting the Captcha::reCAPTCHA perl module be packaged.



committed to svn; provided it builds ok on the buildsystem, you should  
see it in the repo after the next package rebuild.


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Re: [suggest] rTorrent 0.8.5 / libTorrent 0.12.5

2009-10-27 Thread Steve Huff


On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Alessandro Calorì wrote:


Please, update rTorrent and libTorrent. I can't make the old version
to work on CentOS 5.3 (seems like a curl/c-ares bug): it doesn't
announce to any tracker.



updated in svn; after the next package rebuild, you should see them in  
the repository.


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Re: [suggest] perl-dbd-mysql package naming

2009-10-22 Thread Steve Huff


On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:


I admit I am always annoyed when i need to type the mixed-case name,
but this is basically a gratuitous change.

Dag, any chance you can rename the package in the repo?



$ sudo echo 'exclude = perl-DBD-mysql'  /etc/yum.conf

that will fix your problem quite well without requiring us to break  
with our naming convention :)


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Re: [suggest] possible bug in packaging perl-WWW-Mechanize

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Huff


On Oct 16, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Marc DeTrano wrote:

On a CentOS 5.3 system, if I update the WWW::Mechanize perl with the  
latest package from rpmforge, perl-WWW- 
Mechanize-1.56-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm, and then try to use it, I get  
this error:


LWP::UserAgent version 5.827 required--this is only version 2.033  
at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 106


On this distro, the LWP::UserAgent module comes from the perl-libwww- 
perl package, from the CentOS base repository.


My work around for the time being is to force install of an older  
version:


yum install perl-WWW-Mechanize-1.34

However, any general update will attempt to upgrade that older  
version (and break my perl using that module).



that is indeed the issue :)

a similar situation has recently been discussed over here:

http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-October/002771.html

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Re: [suggest] mplayer: -rtsp-stream-over-tcp requires the LIVE555 Streaming Media or libnemesi libraries.

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Huff


On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Aleksey Nogin wrote:

The earlier versions of the mplayer package did not have a problem  
with the -rtsp-stream-over-tcp option, but with  
mplayer-1.0-0.40.svn20090711.el5.rf I get the error message:


-rtsp-stream-over-tcp requires the LIVE555 Streaming Media or  
libnemesi libraries.


Would it be possible to rebuild the mplayer package with the  
libnemesi library?



Aleksey,

There's a bit of a dependency chain before we can add this feature to  
mplayer.  libnemesi requires netembryo, which requires lksctp  
development libraries.  I have packaged and committed lksctp-tools and  
netembryo (they should show up after the next package rebuild,  
provided they build OK on the build system), but libnemesi does not  
actually have a release tarball yet, and the link from their webpage  
for downloading a snapshot didn't work for me.


If you'd like to help move this task forward, you could do either (or  
both) of the following:


1) Contact the libnemesi developers and ask them to roll up and  
release a version of libnemesi, or at least to give you some idea of  
their timeline for the first release.
2) Figure out the appropriate URL that will generate a snapshot of  
libnemesi from git, and post it to this list.


Once we have this final dependency in rpmforge, I (or one of the other  
maintainers, or you) can try to build mplayer with libnemesi support.


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Re: [suggest] Request: Required Perl Packages for Bugzilla 3.4

2009-07-28 Thread Steve Huff


On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Chris Eveleigh wrote:

anyway, when there is a requirement of the form at least one of  
these alternates i've heard about virtual provides where each of  
the possible provider packages adds a generic provide - e.g.  
Provides: perlDBdriver - so that the dependency can be satisfied  
by any of the available packages and yum/rpm/whatever will only  
complain if the user attempts to remove the last of those packages.


for example, the bugzilla package depends on webserver which can  
be satisfied by httpd or lighttpd or whatever.  i think there's  
another one for mailserver.



for another example of this procedure, look at rpmforge's perl-JSON- 
Any.  using the -alternative syntax might be a good way of making it  
obvious that one is looking at a virtual provide.


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[suggest] missing Perl dependencies in perl-Email-Store

2009-07-02 Thread Steve Huff

hello folks!

perl-Email-Store-0.255-1 requires Class::DBI,  
Class::Data::Inheritable, Ima::DBI, all of which are currently in  
RPMforge, but these dependencies are not captured in the spec.  the  
patch is attached!


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Re: [suggest] imapsync needs perl-TermReadKey and perl-Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Huff


On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Philip Durbin wrote:


Can two dependencies please be added to the imapsync package?

1. perl-TermReadKey (to avoid Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC)

2. perl-Mail-IMAPClient-2.2.9 (to avoid imapsync needs perl lib  
Mail::IMAPClient release 2.2.9 exactly, future imapsync release may  
suppoort 3.0.x, but sorry not now. See file BUG_IMAPClient_3.xx)



in the spirit of helpfulness, the patch is attached :)

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[suggest] missing Perl dependency (HTTP::Response::Encoding) for WWW::Mechanize

2009-06-22 Thread Steve Huff

hello folks!

perl-WWW-Mechanize-1.54-1 requires perl(HTTP::Response::Encoding),  
which, as best i can tell, is not provided by rpmforge or by upstream  
(RHEL5).  am i missing something?


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Re: [suggest] request for additional Perl modules

2009-06-18 Thread Steve Huff

On 6/9/09 4:52 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 22:36 +0200, Steve Huff wrote:

Please add the following Perl modules to the repository, if possible.  I
have included a specfile for Mail::ListDetector (generated by cpan2rpm).

Email::Store
Mail::ListDetector
Class::DBI::DATA::Schema


I see the new packages on packages.sw.be, but yum can't see them, even 
when querying against apt.sw.be.  Is this an issue of metadata not yet 
generated?


thanks,
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[suggest] Net::Twitter::Lite-0.02002

2009-06-11 Thread Steve Huff
Net::Twitter::Lite-0.02002 was just now pushed to CPAN (it may not yet  
have synced out to all the mirrors).  it contains a fix for a broken  
dependency that prevented the module from functioning correctly on  
RHEL4 and RHEL5.


the Makefile.PL still specifies a dependency on ExtUtils::MakeMaker  
that is newer than the one provided by stock perl on RHEL5, but the  
package seems to build and function OK in spite of this.  please  
consider adding this package to rpmforge.


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Re: [suggest] Missing Dependency perl-JSON-Any

2009-06-11 Thread Steve Huff


On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:

The module JSON::Any needs at least one of JSON, JSON::XS or  
JSON::DWIW

to function. In its current state the RPM for perl-JSON-Any does not
have a dependency on any of those packages.

Perhaps a dependency on the noarch JSON module would be appropriate?



Well that would be a solution but not a correct one. Consider  
someone

using JSON::Any and explicitly want to have _only_ JSON::XS. With this
solution you would force him to install JSON. Actually with the  
features

RPM provides I don't see any correct solution to this.



1) in the scenario above, the user could write 'use JSON::Any  
qw( XS );', which would limit his code to only using JSON::XS.  if  
he's bound and determined to not have JSON installed on his system, he  
can always do a `rpm -e --nodeps perl-JSON` after installing perl-JSON- 
Any.


2) as an alternative, since rpmforge is packaging all of the modules  
in question, another solution would be to add some distinctive string  
(maybe 'perl-JSON-Any-alternative') as a Provides: for *all* of the  
various rpmforge-packaged JSON alternatives (perl-JSON, perl-JSON-XS,  
perl-JSON-DWIW, perl-YAML-Syck), and then add 'Requires: perl-JSON-Any- 
alternative' to perl-JSON-Any.  this would at least prevent perl-JSON- 
Any from being able to install in a broken state and make sure the  
user is aware that it's essential to install at least one of the  
supporting modules.


personally, i would prefer the first solution; perl-JSON is only  
~344K, there's a programmatic workaround to make sure that it doesn't  
get called by JSON::Any, and imo it's better not to ship a package  
that installs in a nonfunctional state without emitting any error or  
warning message.


-steve

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Re: [suggest] tor-0.2.0.30

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Huff


On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Greg Swallow wrote:


http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2008/msg00209.html
...saying to try removing the --enable-openbsd-malloc configure  
options in the spec file.


yup!  i can confirm that that works.

trivial patch (hey, and it even works for SuSE! :) )

-steve



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