[Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] Scientific: including sage fails depcheck for no clear reason

[Amit Saha]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin at scrye.com>
> To: spins at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 1:25:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] Scientific: including sage fails depcheck for no clear reason
> 
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 22:14:25 -0500
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:01:08 +0000,
> >    Amit Saha <amitksaha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > >commit 8f0b1a1f68709622e9b38260ea501bd486f18ac0
> > >Author: Amit Saha <asaha at redhat.com>
> > >Date:   Tue Sep 10 13:00:57 2013 +1000
> > >
> > >    Scientific: including sage fails depcheck for no clear reason
> > 
> > The error message explains what happened, though it's a bit unusual.
> > sagemath requires /bin/sh and no package appears to provide that.
> > Either bash should provide both /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sh or sagemath
> > should require /usr/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh.
> 
> It's not that. ;)
> 
> > There was some
> > discussion about this problem in general on one of the lists roughly
> > a month ago. Probably the best way to start is by filing a bug with
> > sagemath.
> > 
> > Also note, that you won't see this when you aren't using mock since
> > the path /bin/sh will work on the system you are running on.
> 
> Its actually the pretrans. ;(
> 
> You CANNOT use shell in a pretrans. I'm not sure why people keep trying
> to do this. Perhaps we could get rpm to throw a build time error...

You are perhaps referring to this in sage.spec:

########################################################################
%pretrans
# Temporary due to moving directory to symlink
if [ ! -L %{SAGE_ROOT}/devel -a -d %{SAGE_ROOT}/devel ]; then
    mkdir %{SAGE_SRC}
    mv %{SAGE_ROOT}/devel/* %{SAGE_SRC}
    rmdir %{SAGE_ROOT}/devel
    ln -s src %{SAGE_ROOT}/devel
fi


> 
> Please do file a bug on sagemath.

Filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006230


Thanks,
Amit.


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Amit Saha <http://echorand.me>
Infrastructure Engineering and Development
Red Hat, Inc.