Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 143122
Needs update to graphviz-2.2
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
Description of problem: Needs update to graphviz-2.0 (Now under CPL) Also, as one of the graphviz authors, how can I get plugged in to at least automatically receive all bugzilla reports against graphviz? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Tempus fugit. graphviz-2.2 is now available (and recommended).
Michael Schwendt asked (on fedora-devel) if any packages that depend on graphviz are affected by an upgrade to 2.2. As far as I can tell there are no such packages at this time in fedora or fedora-extras, with the possible exception of "doxygen" which has an optional dependency. Doxygen works with the upgrade as I use it myself. "perl-Graphviz" is not currently included in extras, but is unlikely to be affected since it uses the stdin/stdout interfaces to dot which we keep very stable. "webdot" is not currently included in extras, but thats mine and it works with the upgrade to 2.2. If other packages that depend on graphviz, I would like to know about them so that I can test them before future releases. There are very few code changes between 1.16 and 2.2. The major change is the switch to CPL. I was under the impression that the old AT&T license was unnacceptable to Redhat, so the change to CPL should be a sufficient reason to upgrade.
I grepped through the Extras CVS repository and found that these packages have an explicit dependencies on graphviz: rpmDirectoryCheck, libxml++, icu, and taglib. AFAICS rpmDirectoryCheck is the only one of those that uses graphviz for something else than in generating doxygen docs at build time. Assuming doxygen is not affected by the update, there's not much to test. If you'd like to update the current Extras graphviz package to the latest version, go ahead and submit a specfile patch here. I can take care of it too, but I'm afraid I cannot test it very thoroughly right now. Let me know what you think.
Thanks. I to a quick look a rpmDirectoryCheck on an x86_64 FC4(-) system, but it seems to have its own problems without graphviz. It only uses dot as a command-line postprocessor, so it is very likely unaffected by the upgrade to 2.2. Patch to graphviz-spec follows. I've tested it on x86_64 FC4 but the changes follow my own spec file which also works on RH7.3 and later.
Created attachment 110090 [details] patch to graphiz.spec for graphviz-2.2
Created attachment 110095 [details] Updated graphviz spec patch Here's an updated patch, see %changelog for changes. Let me know what you think; with your approval, I'll commit this to Extras CVS. By the way, there's no comment format in specfiles for %macros. Two %'s as in %%foo means literal "%" followed by "foo", that can be used to emulate comments to some extent.
Per our discussion, there is no need for any lib*tcl.so* symlinks to be installed as the pkgIndex.tcl refers to the .so.x.x.x files directly and these are tcl packages, not reusable libraries. I think we concluded to explicitly exclude some that I'd missed? No harm if they are left in, so its really up to you. Otherwise you have my approval, and my thanks for your efforts.
Committed, updated packages for FC1-FC3 should appear soonish. Thanks.
FC1 and FC2 builds are now available in fedora.us "pending", waiting for verification. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/PendingRepository