SCL on RH8!
by Andrew Ford
Looks like we have a tentative strategy at work (not saying who I work
for at the moment) to migrate some ancient systems from Red Hat 8 to
something more modern by first migrating from system perl (5.8.0) to an
scl-perl, which we are going to try and get up on RH8 and CentOS5. Then
we can migrate the scripts to 5.16 at our leisure. scl-utils compiles
and runs on RH8 (just needed to remove the -Wextra from the Makefile to
get it to compile). I am now looking at SCL-izing perl 5.8.0 - to build
with rpm 4.1.1 - aagh!
Andrew
11 years, 5 months
What is the status of software collections?
by Andrew Ford
I have just discovered software collections, having stumbled across
Jindrich Novy's "RHEL Packaging" presentation and the Fedora/RHEL
"Software Collections Guide" manual. I had been trying to package up
non-system versions of Perl and CPAN modules for work, using a very
similar approach to scl. I would like to recommend that we adopt
software collections, but apart from a flurry of activity in the middle
of the year, everything has gone quiet. Is this a technology that has a
future?
Regards
Andrew
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11 years, 5 months
Building SCL packages with mock
by Doran L. Barton
Eventually, I'd like to build Perl 5.16.x SCL packages with mock and/or koji.
I've built several from the command line by just doing 'rpmbuild -ba SPECFILE
--define "scl perl514"' but I'm not sure how to do that in a 'mock'
environment.
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Doran L. Barton <doran(a)bluehost.com> - Senior Developer, Bluehost, RHCE
"When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him
melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle
him with vigor."
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11 years, 5 months
spec2scl problems
by Doran L. Barton
After seeing some chatter about spec2scl on this list, I decided to install it
and try it out. Here's what I'm seeing:
$ cpanspec Template-Toolkit
$ spec2scl -i perl-Template-Toolkit.spec
$ rpmbuild -ba perl-Template-Toolkit.spec --define 'scl perl514'
error: line 16: Unknown tag: scl enable perl514 '
Line 16 of the spec file reads:
%{?scl:scl enable %{scl} '}
What am I doing incorrectly?
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11 years, 5 months
