What is the status of software collections?

Andrew Ford A.Ford at ford-mason.co.uk
Thu Nov 8 11:05:12 UTC 2012


Yes I have come across perlbrew.  I have a locally patched version that 
accepts a --chroot option, which I was using for setting up perl in my 
RPM spec file prior to discovering SCL.

My main objective at the moment is to get some versions of SCL perl 
building on RHEL5 - 5.14 and 5.16 would do as a first stage, but I will 
probably need to try and get 5.8.8 packaged up with SCL for RHEL6 tat 
some point o aid migration of legacy applications.

Andrew

Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> I do not plan package all versions of perl. Did you hear about 
> perlbrew? I'm using it for switching between various version during 
> testing of bugs. It might be useful even for migration.
>
> Marcela
>
> On 11/07/2012 05:00 PM, Andrew Ford wrote:
>> Thanks for the information - I will follow this with interest.  I am
>> particularly interested in getting SCL versions of perl 5.14, 5.12, 5.10
>> and 5.8 (!) set up, so that I can get some legacy systems gradually
>> migrated to newer versions of perl.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
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>>>
>>> [1] https://bitbucket.org/bkabrda/spec2scl
>>> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/SoftwareCollections/
>>>
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