Bug 761000
| Summary: | Add support for the /usr move | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Patrik Kis <pkis> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | urgent | ||
| Version: | 6.3 | CC: | ddumas, dennis, ffesti, gholms, jnovy, kay, ksrot, marius.rieder, mvadkert, pkis, pknirsch, pmatilai |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | 6.3 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | rpm-4.8.0-20.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Packages for Fedora >= 17 require a special rpmlib() dependency provided by rpm to track the /usr merge (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove) being done in that version, otherwise it wont be possible to use eg. mock chroot to install and build packages for that distribution. This special tracking dependency has been added to rpm now to allow Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to be used as a host for building packages for these newer Fedora versions.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | 760996 | Environment: | |
| Last Closed: | 2012-06-20 14:23:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 760996 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 760997, 760999 | ||
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Description
Harald Hoyer
2011-12-07 14:49:36 UTC
CondNak on per-need basis - RHEL itself doesn't need this patch, this is only needed for the koji builders and there are three possibilities: a) builders avoid the need for this by using a special version of filesystem package a) builders use their own version of rpm with this patch applied (if a is not chosen this will be required temporarily anyway) c) this patch gets applied to RHEL itself to eventually eliminate the need for a special version of rpm on the builders From a fedora releng position I do not want to patch rpm on the builders at all. Please make it work without the need to. yes there has been cases in the past where we have done so. but it makes it really hard for people outside of Fedora to use rhel to build fedora rpms. which a lot of people do. its not a sustainable practice. especially since its a temporary measure its even better to avoid. since its likely to get forgotten in the future. patching rpm also makes life harder for secondary arches. and other consumers of rebuilding our sources. (In reply to comment #3) > From a fedora releng position I do not want to patch rpm on the builders at > all. Please make it work without the need to. Not sure, if that's really possible. Fedora 17 will not install any of the converted packages on a system without the new RPM, or an unconverted filessystem. That will obviously also applies to the builders. Unless the builder always use --nodeps to install filesystem.rpm, or some other trick, we need RPM in the builder provide the functionality needed by the packages. I don't have any idea for 'make it work without the need", and we need a solution this week. Any better idea? Thanks! ok, so Dennis does not want a fork for the Fedora build system. Panu, we need this in RHEL-6.3! While I'm not exactly eager to add Fedora-specific patches to RHEL (it wont be "temporary" at that point since we'll be forced to carry it for years to come) I guess I can live with that. However adding it to RHEL-6.3 wont make it available on builders NOW. prebuild rpm packages: http://people.redhat.com/harald/downloads/rpm/4.8.0-19.el6.0.usrmove.1/ patch: http://people.redhat.com/harald/downloads/rpm/4.8.0-19.el6.0.usrmove.1/rpm-4.8.0-usrmove.patch spec file: http://people.redhat.com/harald/downloads/rpm/4.8.0-19.el6.0.usrmove.1/rpm.spec
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Packages for Fedora >= 17 require a special rpmlib() dependency provided by rpm to track the /usr merge (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove) being done in that version, otherwise it wont be possible to use eg. mock chroot to install and build packages for that distribution. This special tracking dependency has been added to rpm now to allow Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to be used as a host for building packages for these newer Fedora versions.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0909.html |