Bug 1555752 - firmware-addon-dell: FTBFS in F28
Summary: firmware-addon-dell: FTBFS in F28
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firmware-addon-dell
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
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Assignee: Michael E Brown
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F28FTBFS
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-14 19:36 UTC by Fedora Release Engineering
Modified: 2022-01-14 19:37 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 21:59:40 UTC
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Description Fedora Release Engineering 2018-03-14 19:36:45 UTC
Your package firmware-addon-dell failed to build from source in current F28.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=24786261

For details on mass rebuild see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2018-03-28 21:57:20 UTC
Welp, one obvious problem is that python-smbios became python3-smbios behind its back. Also, it needs `BuildRequires: perl`.

Before I go too far down the road of trying to port this thing to Python 3, does it even make sense to ship it any more? Neither it nor firmware-tools appears to have been touched upstream for 6 or 7 years, while Dell continues to work on libsmbios. And I think Dell is now supporting firmware updates via fwupd. Is this just abandoned and should be retired? WDYT, Peter?

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2018-03-29 10:53:57 UTC
This package is part of Server DVD and breaks repoclosure of that medium. 

$ sudo mount -o loop Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-28_Beta-1.3.iso /mnt/test/
$ rpmdeplint check-repoclosure --repo tmp,/mnt/test/ /mnt/test/Packages/s/systemd-238-7.fc28.x86_64.rpm # the last argument is fake
2018-03-29 12:45:42,713 rpmdeplint WARNING Ignoring pre-existing repoclosure problem: nothing provides python-smbios needed by firmware-addon-dell-2.2.9-12.fc25.x86_64

A final blocker it seems:
"There must be no errors in any package on the release-blocking images which cause the package to fail to install. "
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Final_Release_Criteria#no-broken-packages

Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2018-03-29 10:56:51 UTC
Turn out bug 1561768 is already proposed as blocker, so unproposing this one.

Comment 4 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-07-09 04:18:29 UTC
Dear Maintainer,

your package has not been built successfully in F28. Action is required from you.

If you can fix your package to build, perform a build in koji, and either create
an update in bodhi, or close this bug without creating an update, if updating is
not appropriate [1]. If you are working on a fix, set the status to ASSIGNED to
acknowledge this. Following the latest policy for such packages [2], your package
will be orphaned if this bug remains in NEW state more than 8 weeks.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source#Package_Removal_for_Long-standing_FTBFS_bugs

Comment 5 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-07-09 04:22:41 UTC
Dear Maintainer,

your package has not been built successfully in F28. Action is required from you.

If you can fix your package to build, perform a build in koji, and either create
an update in bodhi, or close this bug without creating an update, if updating is
not appropriate [1]. If you are working on a fix, set the status to ASSIGNED to acknowledge this. Following the latest policy for such packages [2], your package will be orphaned if this bug remains in NEW state more than 8 weeks.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source#Package_Removal_for_Long-standing_FTBFS_bugs

Comment 6 João Carlos Mendes Luís 2018-07-30 18:14:53 UTC
:-(

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firmware-addon-dell/c/23f8bab6e1a3dc30b6a49ed46e6b2b8c430ea4c0?branch=master


"The recommendation from Dell is to drop it. Other distros have dropped it too" -- Charles Rose, Dell

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:14:13 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. 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
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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 21:59:40 UTC
Fedora 28 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-05-28. Fedora 28 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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