Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I would if this were a test version of the RPM, but it isn't. It's the standard version from the base repo. I may file a BZ report.
It looks to me like that upstream doesn't consider anything but their binaries as official. :(
This might be due in whole or in part to having to register the app with the API for each supported service, but the effect appears to be that no one can build from source without hitting this limitation.
That is unfortunate, though I'm not sure the Fedora packages can fix it (upstream might not be able to either).
The package could patch `-DEV` out of the Version string in fs/version.go, though the packages do try to do that via LDFLAGS (refer to line 144 in the rclone spec file)¹.
I was curious and killing time avoiding real work, so I built the package with the version file patched instead of only trying to override it via LDFLAGS, to see if that reported the version without the -DEV. It does remove the '-DEV' suffix:
$ rclone version rclone v1.57.0 - os/version: fedora 35 (64 bit) - os/kernel: 5.15.16-100.fc34.x86_64 (x86_64) - os/type: linux - os/arch: amd64 - go/version: go1.16.13 - go/linking: dynamic - go/tags: none
I don't know if that's enough to allow the build to work without the 7-day limitation, as I don't use rclone. Please feel free to give that a try and see if it helps. It'd be great if it were that simple. If so, I can submit the change to the package maintainer easily enough.
The scratch build and package changes are at:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=82292527 https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/tmz/rpms/rclone/c/9ab47be63?branch=fix-ve...
It would be ideal if upstream and downstream packagers could come to some sort of arrangement to improve the situation. That presumes upstream would be interested in having builds which didn't come directly from their site.
¹ https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rclone/blob/045ab834f/f/rclone.spec#_144