Bug 1290878
| Summary: | macros.fonts uses %define instead of %global | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jason Tibbitts <j> |
| Component: | fontpackages | Assignee: | Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 24 | CC: | fonts-bugs, nicolas.mailhot, paul, tagoh |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2017-08-08 12:30:55 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jason Tibbitts
2015-12-11 18:39:19 UTC
Oh, hey, it appears that on EPEL6 (and 7, though that doesn't block my work) the fontpackages macros are actually part of EPEL. Which means I can pretty much never expect to be able to use a fix. I'll see if I can't just override the macros in my own macro package and be done with it. Might be worth fixing the bug in the branches you actually control, but I guess it's not such a big deal. (In reply to Jason Tibbitts from comment #0) > Is there a specific reason that %define is used there? I don't think so, it's just old and working and antedates the great define purging. And since changing it implies rebuilding all font packages and updating the Fedora wiki, it's pretty much only done at the start of a Fedora cycle It's not a huge deal except when it doesn't work (which really only happens when you do fancy things with RPM macros as I'm doing). In the specific case of EL6, we can't fix it anyway because it's a Red Hat package, but I can just override the one macro I need to change. I haven't made it to EL5 but I believe the same change will be needed there as well. I can of course just do the same override, but since I've the ability to actually fix it properly I'd prefer to do that if you wouldn't mind me doing so. And changing it to fix this issue actually doesn't imply a rebuild of anything except the fontpackages package, since the actual font packages are unchanged after this change it made. I don't think anything has a direct version dependency on any of the fontpackages subpackages. Sure, you don't *need* to rebuild. But if you don't, anyone trying to rebuild from the repo won't be able to reproduce exactly the packages. Some people suspect three-letter agencies when that happens Actually, the packages are identical save for timestamps. I can provide you with rpmdiffs of the packages built with and without the single macro change if this would help you. No need I was just explaining why changes to this root package are few and take a long time to percolate in epel. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle. Changing version to '24'. More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase This message is a reminder that Fedora 24 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 2 (two) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 24. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '24'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 24 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. FYI, this no longer matters to me because EPEL5 is long gone. However, the bug does still exist, even in rawhide. Fedora 24 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-08-08. Fedora 24 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |