[Kolab-devel] PEAR packaging problems

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Richard,

Quoting Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl>:

> Op Thursday 04 December 2008 08:48:14 schreef Richard Bos:
>> > We experienced some problems with PEAR packaging during preparations for
>> > the next Kolab server release. Maybe some packagers from other distros
>> > have additional insight or can make use of the information.
>>
>> I encounter the same thing.
>> My specfiles contain:
>> # %setup -q -n %{prj}-%{version}
>> # %__cp %{SOURCE0} %{prj}-%{version}.tgz
>>
>> The last line (%__cp) should not be needed as the package is
>> there already, but in an unpackage format.  The cp is there
>> because the pear install command expects a package, just
>> as you stated.
>
> Thanks to an example provided by Mathieu P, I was able to improve the rpm
> build (for openSUSE), I added a update to issue 3260
> https://www.intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue3260 :
>
> I made first the following change:
>
> horde-cli> osc diff horde-cli.spec
> Index: horde-cli.spec
> ===================================================================
> --- horde-cli.spec     (revision 1)
> +++ horde-cli.spec     (working copy)
> @@ -27,17 +27,17 @@
>
>  %prep
>  %setup -q -n %{prj}-%{version}
> -%__cp %{SOURCE0} %{prj}-%{version}.tgz
>
>  %build
> +%__mv ../package.xml .
>
>  %install
> -pear
> install --packagingroot %{buildroot} --nodeps --offline %{prj}-%{version}.tgz
> +pear install --packagingroot %{buildroot} --nodeps package.xml
>
>  %__rm -rf %{buildroot}/%{peardir}/.
> {filemap,lock,registry,channels,depdb,depdblock}
>
>  %__mkdir_p %{buildroot}%{xmldir}
> -%__cp %{_builddir}/package.xml %{buildroot}%{xmldir}/%{prj}.xml
> +%__cp package.xml %{buildroot}%{xmldir}/%{prj}.xml
>
>  %clean
>  %__rm -rf %{buildroot}
> @@ -57,6 +57,10 @@
>
>
>  %changelog
> +* Thu Dec 04 2008
> +- Changed the build method to use the unpacked tarbal.  This will allow the
> +  rpm to apply patches against the pristine sources, with the former method
> +  this was not possible.
>  * Fri Nov 28 2008
>  - initial version
>
> This copies the package.xml into the unpacked sources directory, which makes
> it possible to build from the unpacked sources.
>
> Next I tried to build an rpm for a patched pear module.  This works quite
> well now :)  But it is with some trickery:
>
>
> horde-cli> osc diff
> Index: horde-cli.spec
> ===================================================================
> --- horde-cli.spec     (revision 2)
> +++ horde-cli.spec     (working copy)
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  Group:         Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers
>  Url:           http://pear.horde.org/index.php?package=%{prj}
>  Source0:       %{prj}-%{version}.tgz
> +Patch0:        horde.patch
>  BuildArch:     noarch
>  BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
>  PreReq:        %{_bindir}/pear
> @@ -27,6 +28,8 @@
>
>  %prep
>  %setup -q -n %{prj}-%{version}
> +cd ..
> +%patch0 -p0
>
>  %build
>  %__mv ../package.xml .
>
> The horde.patch file contains 2 patches (in this case); 1 patched pear module
> and a patched package.xml file (providing a updated md5sum for the file).
>
> The patch is obtained using the following commands:
> #  (diff -u package.xml package.xml.new; diff -Naur Horde_CLI-0.0.2
> Horde_CLI-0.0.2.new) > horde.patch
>
> The trickery is the line with 'cd ..'  as the setup tag moves into the
> unpacked sources directory the only way to patch the package.xml file, is
> to return to the parent directory.  This all seems to work well :)
>
> Hopefully this build method can be used by others too.

Thanks for your insight. Also thanks to Mathieu for his comments. I  
closed kolab/issue3260 again as it is in fact resolved and opened  
kolab/issue3294 (https://www.intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue3294).

Send upstream a bug report: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=15242

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
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