Bug 1935390 - Need to fix gnuradio on EPEL8
Summary: Need to fix gnuradio on EPEL8
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnuradio
Version: epel8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2021-03-04 19:35 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2023-05-28 03:29 UTC (History)
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Description Orion Poplawski 2021-03-04 19:35:01 UTC
Description of problem:

The current gnuradio package in EPEL8 has a couple issues.  Unfortunately, I never submitted my changes back when I first made them last August - so I'm not sure the best way to proceed.

My changes were to:
- update to 3.8.1.0
- Add Requires on python3-qt5-base and python3-pyqt5-sip
- add an upstream patch for sip support
- Undefine __cmake_in_source_build for Fedora < 33 and EPEL 8 compatibility

most of these have already happened in the mainline branch except for the added requires.

In the meantime, mainline has updated to 3.9.0.0, added BRs on volk which is not in EPEL8

So:
- is it appropriate to update to 3.9.0.0 in EPEL8?
- if so, should we get volk into EPEL8?

otherwise we could update just to 3.8.2.0 in EPEL8.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2021-03-08 08:26:25 UTC
(In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> The current gnuradio package in EPEL8 has a couple issues.  Unfortunately, I
> never submitted my changes back when I first made them last August - so I'm
> not sure the best way to proceed.
> 
> My changes were to:
> - update to 3.8.1.0
> - Add Requires on python3-qt5-base and python3-pyqt5-sip
> - add an upstream patch for sip support
> - Undefine __cmake_in_source_build for Fedora < 33 and EPEL 8 compatibility
> 
No problem to update. Could you provide link to the sip patch?

> most of these have already happened in the mainline branch except for the
> added requires.
> 
> In the meantime, mainline has updated to 3.9.0.0, added BRs on volk which is
> not in EPEL8
> 
> So:
> - is it appropriate to update to 3.9.0.0 in EPEL8?
> - if so, should we get volk into EPEL8?
> 
> otherwise we could update just to 3.8.2.0 in EPEL8.

I don't think that rebasing to 3.9.0.0 in EPEL is a good thing at the moment. I had very hard time with the rebase in f34/f35 and it is still not finished. At the moment I am debugging some obscure crashes of gr-funcube on ppc64le/s390x which replaced gr-fcdproplus, some other packages got very experimental patches which are not yet upstreamed. It can break a lot of things.

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2021-03-08 08:28:01 UTC
(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #1)
> (In reply to Orion Poplawski from comment #0)
> > Description of problem:
> > 
> > The current gnuradio package in EPEL8 has a couple issues.  Unfortunately, I
> > never submitted my changes back when I first made them last August - so I'm
> > not sure the best way to proceed.
> > 
> > My changes were to:
> > - update to 3.8.1.0
> > - Add Requires on python3-qt5-base and python3-pyqt5-sip
> > - add an upstream patch for sip support
> > - Undefine __cmake_in_source_build for Fedora < 33 and EPEL 8 compatibility
> > 
> No problem to update. Could you provide link to the sip patch?
> 
> > most of these have already happened in the mainline branch except for the
> > added requires.
> > 
> > In the meantime, mainline has updated to 3.9.0.0, added BRs on volk which is
> > not in EPEL8
> > 
> > So:
> > - is it appropriate to update to 3.9.0.0 in EPEL8?
> > - if so, should we get volk into EPEL8?
> > 
> > otherwise we could update just to 3.8.2.0 in EPEL8.
> 
> I don't think that rebasing to 3.9.0.0 in EPEL is a good thing at the
> moment. I had very hard time with the rebase in f34/f35 and it is still not
> finished. At the moment I am debugging some obscure crashes of gr-funcube on
> ppc64le/s390x which replaced gr-fcdproplus, some other packages got very
> experimental patches which are not yet upstreamed. It can break a lot of
> things.

It's also worth to mention that volk API is broken on ppc64le/s390x
https://github.com/gnuradio/volk/issues/442

Comment 3 Marcus Müller 2022-02-28 15:45:33 UTC
Just a side note on this: I'm working on a pull request again the rpm main branch, which for the 3.10 release series sets the dependency versions correctly, so that moving forward, it's at least clear which dependencies are permissible; this should help future redhatoid portings.


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