Bug 1484450

Summary: please provide meson build for EPEL 7
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Petr Špaček <pspacek>
Component: mesonAssignee: Igor Gnatenko <ignatenko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel7CC: ignatenko, pspacek, tis, wtaymans
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Description Petr Špaček 2017-08-23 15:38:57 UTC
It would be great if you could build meson packages for EPEL 7 as well.

Thank you for considering this!

Comment 1 Igor Gnatenko 2017-08-23 15:53:40 UTC
EPEL policies state that package should not have incompatible updates. It is not possible with meson -> WONTFIX..



Though I maintain COPR repository for this -- https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ignatenkobrain/meson-el7

Comment 2 Petr Špaček 2017-08-23 15:57:53 UTC
Okay, thank you for reply. Unfortunatelly COPR is not good enough because we wanted to used meson to build knot-resolver in EPEL, which would not be possible.

Have a nice day!

Comment 3 Igor Gnatenko 2017-08-23 16:02:22 UTC
(In reply to Petr Špaček from comment #2)
> Okay, thank you for reply. Unfortunatelly COPR is not good enough because we
> wanted to used meson to build knot-resolver in EPEL, which would not be
> possible.
Do you already have EPEL7 branch in there and update now requires meson or you were planning to create new EPEL7 branch?

Comment 4 Petr Špaček 2017-08-24 10:47:33 UTC
To give you more background:
We were considering move to meson in Knot Resolver upstream. The fact that meson is not available in EPEL 7 is a reason not to move to meson upstream because it would prevent us from building new versions of knot-resolver package for RHEL.

Comment 5 Igor Gnatenko 2017-08-24 13:49:56 UTC
(In reply to Petr Špaček from comment #4)
> To give you more background:
> We were considering move to meson in Knot Resolver upstream. The fact that
> meson is not available in EPEL 7 is a reason not to move to meson upstream
> because it would prevent us from building new versions of knot-resolver
> package for RHEL.

Thanks for providing background!

If this is the only one thing which blocks you (upstream) from switching to meson? If so - I will definitely go ahead and create EPEL7 branch in some nearest future.


P.S. I hope you don't want to have it in EPEL6.. ;)

Comment 6 Petr Špaček 2017-08-24 14:06:02 UTC
EPEL 6 is a dead horse for us. Thank you!

Comment 7 Petr Špaček 2017-08-24 14:22:09 UTC
Oh, wait, I just realized we have to check another platform - Turris OS. I will keep you posted with results.

Comment 8 Igor Gnatenko 2017-08-24 14:33:38 UTC
Also note that since it is build-time dependency and you don't have problems with using network connection from there, you could run `pip install meson` or such..

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2017-09-18 14:38:35 UTC
meson-0.42.1-1.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-033f17e551

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2017-09-19 17:20:08 UTC
meson-0.42.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-033f17e551

Comment 11 Tuomo Soini 2017-09-20 06:49:56 UTC
There is a issue in meson. It doesn't build against rhel 7.4 version of vulkan and I just requested retirement of vulkan on epel7 because it updates rhel7 version.

Comment 12 Tuomo Soini 2017-09-20 06:53:07 UTC
Check bug#1493407

Comment 13 Tuomo Soini 2017-09-20 07:10:18 UTC
Tested - meson builds fine against rhel7 vulkan if BR: pkgconfig(vulkan) is changed to vulkan-devel.

Comment 14 Igor Gnatenko 2017-09-20 07:14:47 UTC
(In reply to Tuomo Soini from comment #13)
> Tested - meson builds fine against rhel7 vulkan if BR: pkgconfig(vulkan) is
> changed to vulkan-devel.

mind reporting new bug for upstream meson so we can try to fix it?

Comment 15 Tuomo Soini 2017-09-20 07:54:29 UTC
This is spec only issue.

Comment 16 Tuomo Soini 2017-09-20 07:55:07 UTC
I explain better: rhel7 has older vulcan which doesn't provide pkgconfig(vulcan).

Comment 17 Tuomo Soini 2017-09-20 09:31:16 UTC
Sorry. pkgconfig(vulkan).

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2017-10-04 22:18:30 UTC
meson-0.42.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.