Re: [th] rpm.spec - packaging problem
On Friday 09 of November 2007, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects /etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside: Not expects. It simply supports both schemas. Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format. Go for it :-) -- Arkadiusz MiśkiewiczPLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.plhttp://ftp.pld-linux.org/ ___ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
Re: [th] rpm.spec - packaging problem
2007/11/9, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 09 of November 2007, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects /etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside: Not expects. It simply supports both schemas. Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format. Go for it :-) Would do that already but I have some questions: * do we provide all (empty) files marked as config,noreplace or do we just ship Filelinktos? * rename rpm.sysinfo to rpm.sysinfo.Filelinktos or just create them inline in the spec (cat EOF)? * which branches to fix? -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution ___ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
Re: [th] rpm.spec - packaging problem
2007/11/9, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 9, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Friday 09 of November 2007, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects /etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside: Not expects. It simply supports both schemas. Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format. Go for it :-) But be prepared for the next generalization (and levels of incompatibility) when I get around to using YAML instead of the /etc/rpm/sysinfo file (originally) or directory tree (currently). What I'd like to see is a seamless representation where the YAML hierarchy or the directory hierarchy can be used interchangeably for carrying around wads of metadata organized in a hierarchical fashion. Are there plans on supporting an API to modify this data? I mean other than launching vim and typing stuff by hand I'd like to be able to use - say - Python and write: rpmds.AddNode(parent = None, type = rpmds.REQUIRES, nevra = someNevra, rel = rpmdb.GREATER_EQUAL) or something similar not having to care about the file format. -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution ___ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
Re: [th] rpm.spec - packaging problem
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:06:23PM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects
/etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside:
Providename,
Requirename,
Conflictname,
Obsoletename,
Dirnames,
Filelinktos
(Taken from rpm/lib/rpmds.c)
In PLD we still provide it as a file which limits its use (the
fallback treats everything in the file as Providename).
After doing:
mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{,.old}
mkdir /etc/rpm/sysinfo
mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{.old,/Filelinktos}
We can do useful stuff like:
echo foo = 0.2 /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Requirename
to pin a certain package a'la Gentoo's world package. Both sysadmins
and poldek could benefit from this feature (poldek would need a helper
binary called via sudo to alter the contents but it uses sudo for rpm
anyway).
Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format.
Uhm, could it be /etc/rpm/sysinfo.d/* ?
Switching a name between being file and directory is PITA with rpm.
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Re: [th] rpm.spec - packaging problem
2007/11/9, Jakub Bogusz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:06:23PM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
Last year rpm switched the /etc/rpm/sysinfo syntax. Now it expects
/etc/rpm/sysinfo to be a directory with following files inside:
Providename,
Requirename,
Conflictname,
Obsoletename,
Dirnames,
Filelinktos
(Taken from rpm/lib/rpmds.c)
In PLD we still provide it as a file which limits its use (the
fallback treats everything in the file as Providename).
After doing:
mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{,.old}
mkdir /etc/rpm/sysinfo
mv /etc/rpm/sysinfo{.old,/Filelinktos}
We can do useful stuff like:
echo foo = 0.2 /etc/rpm/sysinfo/Requirename
to pin a certain package a'la Gentoo's world package. Both sysadmins
and poldek could benefit from this feature (poldek would need a helper
binary called via sudo to alter the contents but it uses sudo for rpm
anyway).
Therefore I propose fixing the packaging to adapt the new upstream format.
Uhm, could it be /etc/rpm/sysinfo.d/* ?
Switching a name between being file and directory is PITA with rpm.
The default (rpm/lib/rpmds.c ~ 1546) is:
#define _ETC_RPM_SYSINFOSYSCONFIGDIR /sysinfo
We can patch either that line or just override the macro used to get
the path later (same file ~ 1571):
rpmExpand(%{?_rpmds_sysinfo_path}, NULL)
The function rpmdsSysinfo is always called with NULL as filename so it
always resorts to evaluating that macro.
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Re: [th] rpm.spec - packaging problem
2007/11/9, Patryk Zawadzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The default (rpm/lib/rpmds.c ~ 1546) is:
#define _ETC_RPM_SYSINFOSYSCONFIGDIR /sysinfo
Upon further investigation, this is used as a callback when the macro
below returns nothing, so the answer is clear:
We can patch either that line or just override the macro used to get
the path later (same file ~ 1571):
rpmExpand(%{?_rpmds_sysinfo_path}, NULL)
The function rpmdsSysinfo is always called with NULL as filename so it
always resorts to evaluating that macro.
And that's defined in /etc/rpm/macros
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