Re: [ANN] Aegis 4.24.3 released

Sorry for the delay. I had monthly status reports due...

On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:32 +0200, Walter Franzini wrote:
> Cal Webster <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Getting rpmbuild errors on the new machine right at the end of the
> > build. Looks like the Aegis makefile assumes %{_prefix}/com exists. This
> > is not a standard system dir so I'm not sure where the assumption comes
> > from or why it builds okay on RHEL 4. Might be some changes in newer
> > rpmbuild package.
> 
> Can you try to add:
> 
> %dir %_sharedstatedir 
> 
> to the .spec %files section?

Tried it near the top, exactly as shown above: no change
Tried it like this just before the "%_prefix/com/aegis" line:

%attr(0755,root,bin) %dir %_sharedstatedir

Still got same error...

I believe this %dir directive only tells RPM that this directory is to
be packaged when the RPM is built. %dir says only package the directory,
not its contents, according to the RPM documentation. 

Since I get no errors when building on RHEL 4 as user "root" I gave this
a try too but still got the same fatal error. This practice is highly
discouraged anyway as it is dangerous to system stability (and security)
so this isn't something I want to adopt as SOP.

I was able to successfully build the SRPM as unprivileged user on a
CentOS 5 i386 machine.

On a Fedora 12 x86_64 machine the rpmbuild failed with the same error,
though. When I check the buildroot in all the failed builds it is
missing directory BUILDROOT/usr/com. Both successful builds have a full
tree in BUILDROOT.

I'll play around with it some more to see if I can figure out what's
going on. It might have something to do with the latest rpm and
rpm-build versions. RHEL/CentOS 5 was based mostly on Fedora core 6
which wasn't too far away from RHEL/CentOS 4 based on FC3. Lots of big
changes in RHEL/CentOS 6, which was based mainly on Fedora 12 so it
makes sense that it would fail on both.

> 
> [...]
> 
> > Oh yeah, and the SPEC file "BuildPrereq" tag is depreciated (causes
> > build failure). The replacement is "Requires".
> 
> Are you sure the replacement is Requires and not BuildRequires?
> If I remember correctly Requires express *installation* time
> dependencies.
> 

You're right. When I got the depreciated error I skimmed over the
references too fast:

http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.8.0#Deprecatedandremovedinterfaces
---------------
# PreReq and BuildPreReq are now officially deprecated, with warnings at
build-time
# PreReq is mapped to Requires(pre,preun) at build-time 
---------------

BuildRequires works as expected.


> [...]
> 
> > extracting debug info
> > from /home/cwebster/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/aegis-4.24.3-1.x86_64/usr/bin/aefinish
> > cpio: aegis-4.24.3/y.tab.c: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> > cpio: aegis-4.24.3/y.tab.h: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> 
> I'm not sure what's happening, y.tab.[ch] should be generated by
> yacc|bison.  Can you try to fix the BuildRequires stuff mentioned?

I got these even on the old RHEL 4 machine. They weren't fatal in either
case.