What is the status of software collections?

Bohuslav Kabrda bkabrda at redhat.com
Wed Nov 7 14:52:45 UTC 2012


Hi Andrew,

----- Original Message -----
> I have just discovered software collections, having stumbled across
> Jindrich Novy's "RHEL Packaging" presentation and the Fedora/RHEL
> "Software Collections Guide" manual.  I had been trying to package up
> non-system versions of Perl and CPAN modules for work, using a very
> similar approach to scl.  I would like to recommend that we adopt
> software collections, but apart from a flurry of activity in the
> middle
> of the year, everything has gone quiet.  Is this a technology that
> has a
> future?
> 

Indeed. Although not being allowed to build in Fedora's Koji, software collections are being worked on:
- There is for example a utility that I wrote, that semi-automatically converts specfiles to SCL style: spec2scl [1]. This has already been packaged into Fedora and you can install it using "yum install spec2scl" from official Fedora repos (there are some tweaks that you have to do manually and some minor bugs fixed in the upstream but not in Fedora yet; still, it helps a lot for converting large sets of specfiles).
- We have a trac for scl-utils themselves [2] and as you can tell by the history of git commits, scl-utils are being developed.
- At [2], you can also find a list of testing repositories for EL-6 with some of the collections that have been created.

I'm pretty curious whether you have hit some interesting problems building SCL packages. If so, feel free to share them here, I'll be more than happy to discuss them.
Thanks,
Slavek.

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[1] https://bitbucket.org/bkabrda/spec2scl
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/SoftwareCollections/

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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.


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