EPEL7 partimage missing ...

[Thorolf Godawa]

Hi,

I not a "real" programmer, more a sysadmin, so please excuse if I'm not
doing all things correct :-)

I was wondering why there is no partimage/partimage-server available for
CentOS 7 in the EPEL-repository, whil it is available for all others.

The reason might be found here:

http://mirrors.karan.org/epel7/Packages/partimage/

I tried to compile partimage-0.6.9 by myself and got similar errors,
finally I found a solution:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662596 and
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=17;filename=partimage-0.6.8-2.2-nmu.diff;att=1;bug=662596

So I converted it into a small patch for CentOS 7 and now I can compile
and run it, maybe one of the "real" programmers in the EPEL-project
would like to include it, to provide the partimage RPMs for EPEL 7 too.

The fix is based on the latest partimage-build found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/partimage/files/stable/0.6.9/partimage-0.6.9.tar.bz2/download

fix_662596-cannot_convert_gzFile_s_partimage-0.6.9.patch:

-----------------------------------------
diff -Nur partimage-0.6.9.orig/src/client/imagefile.cpp
partimage-0.6.9/src/client/imagefile.cpp
--- partimage-0.6.9.orig/src/client/imagefile.cpp	2010-07-25
17:30:31.000000000 +0200
+++ partimage-0.6.9/src/client/imagefile.cpp	2014-11-15
00:25:30.150000000 +0100
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@
   else if (m_options.dwCompression == COMPRESS_GZIP) // Gzip compression
     {
       showDebug(1, "open gzip\n");
-      m_gzImageFile = (gzFile *) gzdopen(m_nFdImage, "wb"); //"wb1h");
+      m_gzImageFile = gzdopen(m_nFdImage, "wb"); //"wb1h");
       if (m_gzImageFile == NULL)
    {
      showDebug(1, "error:%d %s\n", errno, strerror(errno));
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@
     }
   else if (m_options.dwCompression == COMPRESS_GZIP) // Gzip compression
     {
-      m_gzImageFile = (gzFile *) gzdopen(m_nFdImage, "rb");
+      m_gzImageFile = gzdopen(m_nFdImage, "rb");
       if (m_gzImageFile == NULL)
         THROW(ERR_ERRNO, errno);
       else
diff -Nur partimage-0.6.9.orig/src/client/imagefile.h
partimage-0.6.9/src/client/imagefile.h
--- partimage-0.6.9.orig/src/client/imagefile.h	2010-07-25
17:30:31.000000000 +0200
+++ partimage-0.6.9/src/client/imagefile.h	2014-11-15 00:25:45.241000000
+0100
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   COptions m_options;

FILE *m_fImageFile;
-  gzFile *m_gzImageFile;
+  gzFile m_gzImageFile;
   BZFILE *m_bzImageFile;

int m_nFdImage;
-----------------------------------------

thanks a lot,

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/14/2014 04:57 PM, Thorolf Godawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I not a "real" programmer, more a sysadmin, so please excuse if I'm not
> doing all things correct :-)
>
> I was wondering why there is no partimage/partimage-server available for
> CentOS 7 in the EPEL-repository, whil it is available for all others.

...

This -

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/partimage/

shows that there is no EPEL7 branch for partimage yet.  Please file a 
bug against partimage asking for an EPEL7 branch and attach your 
information there.