fakeroot, fakechroot in EPEL 5

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I would like to backport the latest fakeroot and (especially)
fakechroot from Rawhide into EPEL 5, because I'm trying to add some
packages to EPEL which depend on them.

(CC'd to the package maintainer)

  http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/fakeroot/
  http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/fakechroot/

Dependent packages are:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=febootstrap#c17
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=libguestfs#c21

Does anyone have any objections?  As far as I can tell, the only
changes should be feature enhancements.  However as these are quite
complex packages, it is always possible there might have been some
regressions.

Rich.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:46:57AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  I would like to backport the latest fakeroot and (especially)
>  fakechroot from Rawhide into EPEL 5, because I'm trying to add some
>  packages to EPEL which depend on them. 
^^^ When I say 'depend on them' I mean 'depend on having the latest
version of them'.

There are some old versions of fakeroot & fakechroot in EPEL already.

Rich.

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[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:46:57AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I would like to backport the latest fakeroot and (especially)
> > fakechroot from Rawhide into EPEL 5, because I'm trying to add some
> > packages to EPEL which depend on them.
>
>  ^^^ When I say 'depend on them' I mean 'depend on having the latest
>  version of them'.
>
>  There are some old versions of fakeroot & fakechroot in EPEL already.
>
>  Rich.
>  
Make sure you have checked with the owner of that package (and if its
you...) and see what packages require the older one in EPEL. If those
packages need a rebuild we will need to let those people know.


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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:04:20AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>  On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
> <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:46:57AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  >> I would like to backport the latest fakeroot and (especially)
>  >> fakechroot from Rawhide into EPEL 5, because I'm trying to add some
>  >> packages to EPEL which depend on them.
>  >
>  > ^^^ When I say 'depend on them' I mean 'depend on having the latest
>  > version of them'.
>  >
>  > There are some old versions of fakeroot & fakechroot in EPEL already.
>  >
>  > Rich.
>  >
>  
>  Make sure you have checked with the owner of that package (and if its
>  you...) and see what packages require the older one in EPEL. If those
>  packages need a rebuild we will need to let those people know. 
Assuming I'm using the 'repoquery' command correctly, nothing in
EPEL requires fakeroot or fakechroot explicitly.

In Fedora, there is only one package (apart from my own listed in the
original mail) and that is rpmdevtools.

However I think that people will be using fakeroot and fakechroot in
their own scripts.  In know that Axel is.  So I wanted to ask EPEL
developers if they are happy with this move.

Rich.

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[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 09 May 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

>  Assuming I'm using the 'repoquery' command correctly,
> nothing in
>  EPEL requires fakeroot or fakechroot explicitly.
>
>  In Fedora, there is only one package (apart from my own listed in the
>  original mail) and that is rpmdevtools. 
There's at least a new rpmdevtools in EL-5 testing at the moment that requires 
fakeroot.  But I'm not aware of any fakeroot version requirements for it.

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:14:29AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  
>  Assuming I'm using the 'repoquery' command correctly, nothing in
>  EPEL requires fakeroot or fakechroot explicitly. 
It may also be used in buildrequires, that's the case for debootstrap,
for example. In that case, it doesn't depend on a specific version.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:49:16AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>  On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:14:29AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > 
>  > Assuming I'm using the 'repoquery' command correctly, nothing in
>  > EPEL requires fakeroot or fakechroot explicitly.
>  
>  It may also be used in buildrequires, that's the case for debootstrap,
>  for example. In that case, it doesn't depend on a specific version. 
I'll assume that debootstrap and newer versions of fakeroot work well
together, because they are effectively co-developed by Debian together.

Is there a way to list all packages in EPEL which BuildRequire
fake{ch,}root?

Rich.

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[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 09 May 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

>  Is there a way to list all packages in EPEL which BuildRequire
>  fake{ch,}root? 
See examples at end of repoquery man page.

repoquery --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel*" --whatrequires
--alldeps \
	--archlist=src fake{ch,}root

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:34:44PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>  On Saturday 09 May 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > Is there a way to list all packages in EPEL which BuildRequire
>  > fake{ch,}root?
>  
>  See examples at end of repoquery man page.
>  
>  repoquery --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel*" --whatrequires
> --alldeps \
>  	--archlist=src fake{ch,}root 
I also needed --enablerepo="*source".  Here's the result:

fakeroot:
  ttf2pt1-0:3.4.4-7.el5.src
  debootstrap-0:1.0.7-2.el5.src

fakechroot:
  (nothing)

I have CC'd the owners of ttf2pt1 and debootstrap - Please see the
start of this thread:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2009-May/msg00006.html

I will also test build these packages with the newer fakeroot to see
if there are any problems.

Rich.

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[Göran Uddeborg]

Richard W.M. Jones writes:
>    ttf2pt1-0:3.4.4-7.el5.src 
ttf2pt1 has a somewhat simplistic Makefile which does a lot of chown
and chgrp.  Rather than patching the Makefile, I run the
"make install" in a fakeroot environment.  (RPM will take care of
setting the real owner and group later on.)  Pretty basic, so I guess
that will still work with a newer version.

In the mass rebuild that was done for Fedora 11 it was build using
fakeroot-1.11-19.fc11, and that apparently worked just fine.
(Assuming I understand the logs correctly.)

We can still do a rebuild after your upgrade, of course.

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:59:16AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  
>  fakeroot:
>    debootstrap-0:1.0.7-2.el5.src 
I think that it should be right for debootstrap. Besides, it would certainly
not be a problem to update debootstrap to (at least) the version in lenny (to 
have a possibility to bootstrap newer debian versions), so it would match 
the fakeroot/debootstrap combination in fedora.

As a side note lkundrak is the maintainer in EL-5, I am a co-maintainer.

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[Richard W.M. Jones]

I did this yesterday, so new packages for:

  fakeroot 1.12.2-21
  fakechroot 2.9-23
  ttf2pt1 3.4.4-8
  debootstrap 1.0.7-3

should appear soon in EL-5.  ttf2pt1 and debootstrap aren't changed -
I just rebuilt them and checked they still worked.  If there are any
bugs that might be attributed to fakeroot, please let me know.

I also pushed new packages febootstrap and libguestfs - enjoy!

Rich.

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