On 7/1/21 4:05 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
I believe this is a recommendation, versus a policy.
I wanted to get people's thoughts on it, and if ya'll like it, put it in
the documentation.
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In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Red Hat decided to not ship all
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RHEL 9, and possibly future RHEL releases. These missing packages are
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Linux 9" product.
-- Be sure to say that it is impacting an EPEL build, and which package
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2 - Create an epel package that only has the missing packages.
-- Be prepared to maintain this package as long as it is needed.
-- It is recommended that you name it <package>-epel
-- It is recommended that you add the epel-packaging-sig group as a
co-maintainer
-- It qualifies for an exception to the review process[1] so you can
request the repo with
--- fedpkg request-repo --exception <package>-epel
-- If you need help building this, ask for help. We have some examples.
3 - When/If the missing package(s) are added to RHEL CRB, retire your
-epel package.
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Sorry, this is a little rushed. I wanted to get something out sooner,
rather than later.
Troy
So, I've decided to try this with utf8proc. I've requested the
utf8proc-epel package and now requested an epel8 branch (and will retire
the rawhide branch).
These are the changes I have made, does this seem correct? Notes on
changes:
* We are not shipping binaries, so need to disable the debug package
* Need to change Name and %{name}
* Need to explicitly name the devel package
* Need to use relative Requires for the main package. Both to allow
RHEL to update and (in this case) to deal with module release tags
* Remove the files installed for the main package
* Remove %files and %post* for the main package
* Add %changelog entry
--- SPECS/utf8proc.spec 2021-09-22 21:24:59.304665646 -0600
+++ /export/home/orion/fedora/utf8proc-epel/utf8proc-epel.spec
2021-09-22 21:32:01.568719918 -0600
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
+%global debug_package %{nil}
+
Summary: Library for processing UTF-8 encoded Unicode strings
-Name: utf8proc
+Name: utf8proc-epel
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 5%{?dist}
License: Unicode and MIT
Group: System Environment/Libraries
URL:
http://julialang.org/utf8proc/
-Source:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc/archive/v%{version}.tar.gz#/%{name}...
+Source:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc/archive/v%{version}/utf8proc-%{vers...
BuildRequires: gcc
%description
@@ -21,12 +23,12 @@
This package only contains the C library.
-%package devel
+%package -n utf8proc-devel
Summary: Header files, libraries and development documentation for
%{name}
Group: Development/Libraries
-Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: utf8proc%{?_isa} >= %{version}-%{release}
-%description devel
+%description -n utf8proc-devel
Contains header files for developing applications that use the %{name}
library.
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@
strings, unless you want to allocate memory yourself.
%prep
-%setup -qn %{name}-%{version}
+%setup -qn utf8proc-%{version}
# Disable slow tests and tests which require network access
sed -i '/-C bench/d;/\ttest.* data/d' Makefile
touch data/NormalizationTest.txt data/GraphemeBreakTest.txt
touch data/NormalizationTest.txt data/GraphemeBreakTest.txt
@@ -50,19 +52,16 @@
%install
make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} prefix=%{_prefix}
includedir=%{_includedir} libdir=%{_libdir}
rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libutf8proc.a
+rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libutf8proc.so.*
-%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
-
-%files
-%doc LICENSE.md NEWS.md README.md
-%{_libdir}/libutf8proc.so.*
-
-%files devel
+%files -n utf8proc-devel
%{_includedir}/utf8proc.h
%{_libdir}/libutf8proc.so
%changelog
+* Wed Sep 22 2021 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)nwra.com> - 2.1.1-5
+- EPEL -devel only package
+
* Mon Aug 05 2019 Lubos Uhliarik <luhliari(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.1-5
- Resolves: #1696354 - Ensure modular RPM upgrade path
Comments?
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