Problem with installing Xnee

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

I am trying to install Xnee from

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/spot/xnee/

but I am getting the following problem:

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# dnf install xnee
Copr repo for xnee owned by spot                738  B/s | 341  B     00:00
Errors during downloading metadata for repository
'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee':
  - Status code: 404 for
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/spot/xnee/fedora-33-x86_6...
(IP: 13.225.242.51)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo
'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee': Cannot download
repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were
tried
Ignoring repositories: copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee
Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:03 ago on Thu 04 Mar 2021 09:36:52 AM WET.
No match for argument: xnee
Error: Unable to find a match: xnee
#
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Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Michael Young]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to install Xnee from
>
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/spot/xnee/
>
> but I am getting the following problem:
>
> # dnf install xnee
> Copr repo for xnee owned by spot                738  B/s | 341  B     00:00
> Errors during downloading metadata for repository
> 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee':
> Status code: 404 for
>
> https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/spot/xnee/fedora-33-x86_6...
> (IP: 13.225.242.51)
> Error: Failed to download metadata for repo
> 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee': Cannot download
> repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were
> tried
> Ignoring repositories: copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee
> Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:03 ago on Thu 04 Mar 2021 09:36:52 AM WET.
> No match for argument: xnee
> Error: Unable to find a match: xnee
> #
>
> Any ideas?

The most recent build for that package in that repo was 7 months ago 
doesn't have a Fedora 33 build, possibly because it was released.

Michael Young

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 3:48 PM Michael Young  wrote:
> > I am trying to install Xnee from
> >
> > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/spot/xnee/
> >
> > but I am getting the following problem:
> >
> > # dnf install xnee
> > Copr repo for xnee owned by spot                738  B/s | 341  B     00:00
> > Errors during downloading metadata for repository
> > 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee':
> > Status code: 404 for
> >
> > https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/spot/xnee/fedora-33-x86_6...
> > (IP: 13.225.242.51)
> > Error: Failed to download metadata for repo
> > 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee': Cannot download
> > repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were
> > tried
> > Ignoring repositories: copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:spot:xnee
> > Last metadata expiration check: 1:41:03 ago on Thu 04 Mar 2021 09:36:52 AM WET.
> > No match for argument: xnee
> > Error: Unable to find a match: xnee
> > #
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> The most recent build for that package in that repo was 7 months ago
> doesn't have a Fedora 33 build, possibly because it was released.

Thanks, Francisco and Michael. Is there something I can do to get Xnee
installed on my machine?

Paul

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:25:28PM +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks, Francisco and Michael. Is there something I can do to get Xnee
> installed on my machine?

You could always go to one of the build directories on that COPR and
download the .src.rpm and rebuild it yourself.

For example, here:

https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/spot/xnee/fedora-32-x86_6...

You can see a xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm there.  I typically use mock to
build these sorts of packages.

Another thing you could do is get your own COPR space and fork Spot's
xnee repos and build it there for Fedora 33.

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 6:10 PM Jonathan Billings  wrote:
> > Thanks, Francisco and Michael. Is there something I can do to get Xnee
> > installed on my machine?
>
> You could always go to one of the build directories on that COPR and
> download the .src.rpm and rebuild it yourself.
>
> For example, here:
>
> https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/spot/xnee/fedora-32-x86_6...
>
> You can see a xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm there.  I typically use mock to
> build these sorts of packages.
>
> Another thing you could do is get your own COPR space and fork Spot's
> xnee repos and build it there for Fedora 33.

Thanks, Jonathan. But how can I go from de src.rpm to the rpm? Have I
to install mock? Is that easy?

Paul

[Jonathan Billings]

> On Mar 4, 2021, at 4:19 PM, Paul Smith  wrote:
> > You can see a xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm there.  I typically use mock to
> > build these sorts of packages.
> >
> > Another thing you could do is get your own COPR space and fork Spot's
> > xnee repos and build it there for Fedora 33.
>
> Thanks, Jonathan. But how can I go from de src.rpm to the rpm? Have I
> to install mock? Is that easy?

Just:

dnf install mock

and

mock /path/to/xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm

Mock will install the results in a subdirectory of /var/lib/mock, although it has multiple options to change its behavior, such as using —resultdir <path>.

I usually add myself to the “mock” group so I don’t need to enter a password to run mock as a regular user.

--
Jonathan Billings

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:05 AM Jonathan Billings  wrote:
> You can see a xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm there.  I typically use mock to
> build these sorts of packages.
>
> Another thing you could do is get your own COPR space and fork Spot's
> xnee repos and build it there for Fedora 33.
>
> Thanks, Jonathan. But how can I go from de src.rpm to the rpm? Have I
> to install mock? Is that easy?
>
> Just:
> dnf install mock
>
> and
> mock /path/to/xnee-3.19-1.fc32.src.rpm
>
> Mock will install the results in a subdirectory of /var/lib/mock, although it has multiple options to change its behavior, such as using —resultdir <path>.
>
> I usually add myself to the “mock” group so I don’t need to enter a password to run mock as a regular user.

Thanks a lot, Jonathan! I was able to create the Fedora 33 rpm of xnee
by using mock -- it was very simple. I am now going to check out how
to upload that to COPR.

Paul