Bug 2151985 - %mingw_find_lang clobbers previous %find_lang results
Summary: %mingw_find_lang clobbers previous %find_lang results
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mingw-filesystem
Version: 37
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kalev Lember
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 2148781 2148783 2178627
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Reported: 2022-12-08 19:06 UTC by Daniel Berrangé
Modified: 2023-03-15 13:25 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mingw-filesystem-143-1.fc37 mingw-filesystem-133-3.fc36
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Last Closed: 2022-12-18 01:40:13 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2022-12-08 19:06:14 UTC
Description of problem:
A bunch of mingw packages have been folded back into their native package specfiles to reduce the maint burden. Everything appeared to be fairly easy but I recently became aware of a flaw with locale handling.

Essentially we have a pattern

  %meson_install
  %find_lang %{name}
  %mingw_ninja_install
  %mingw_find_lang %{name}

Conceptually the first %find_lang call should only find the native locale files, since we've not run '%mingw_ninja_install' yet to install the mingw files.

In practice though, the native %{name}.lang file, ends up containing both the native local file paths, and both sets of mingw local file paths.

What happens is that /usr/lib/rpm/mingw-find-lang.sh secretly re-runs /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh, and so clobbers the %{name}.lang file we created prior to installing the mingw bits.

I think the /usr/lib/rpm/mingw-find-lang.sh  script needs to take action to prevent this clobbering eg it should do this:

  test -f $2.lang && mv $2.lang $2-native.lang
  /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $*
  test -f $2-native.lang && mv $2-native.lang $2.lang

Right now, I'm having to apply a workaround myself in theu specs

  %find_lang %{name}
  mv %{name}.lang %{name}-native.lang

  %files -f %{name}-native.lang

but it will be quite error prone to expect all maintainers to remember to preserve the output of their %find_lang call, and updates the %files section to reference it.

So I think we should fix mingw-find-lang.sh to not clobber things

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mingw-filesystem-base-141-1.fc37.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run

  %meson_install
  %find_lang %{name}
  %mingw_ninja_install
  %mingw_find_lang %{name}

2. Look at %{name}.lang

Actual results:
%{name}.lang contains native and both mingw sets of locales

Expected results:
%{name}.lang only contains native locale files

Additional info:

Comment 1 Sandro Mani 2022-12-08 19:31:55 UTC
Is

  test -f $2.lang && mv $2.lang $2-native.lang
  /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $*
  test -f $2-native.lang && mv $2-native.lang $2.lang

really sufficient? find-lang.sh will itself pick up mingw translations, so mingw-find-lang.sh shoud actually filter out the mingw prefixes from any existing $2.lang - though this only works if the native find_lang.sh is run before the mingw-find-lang.sh. Or find_lang.sh should accept a --prefix option to only return the results within that prefix.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2022-12-09 08:14:53 UTC
It is sufficient provided you invoke %find_lang  *BEFORE*  %mingw_ninja_install, which is the way I've got all my spec files arranged, because I've fully separated the mingw phase from the native phase, in %install so the whole mingw build can be disabled in RHEL branches.

Comment 3 Sandro Mani 2022-12-09 08:23:36 UTC
One could do

  test -f $2.lang && grep -v mingw32 $2.lang > $2-native.lang
  /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh $*
  test -f $2-native.lang && mv $2-native.lang $2.lang

This way, the order would not matter.

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2022-12-09 08:45:33 UTC
Yes, that would be OK with me.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2022-12-09 11:51:36 UTC
FEDORA-2022-e1b443388c has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-e1b443388c

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2022-12-09 11:51:37 UTC
FEDORA-2022-71012ec845 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-71012ec845

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2022-12-10 02:48:33 UTC
FEDORA-2022-71012ec845 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-71012ec845`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-71012ec845

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2022-12-10 03:01:27 UTC
FEDORA-2022-e1b443388c has been pushed to the Fedora 36 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-e1b443388c`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-e1b443388c

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2022-12-18 01:40:13 UTC
FEDORA-2022-71012ec845 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2022-12-18 01:40:45 UTC
FEDORA-2022-e1b443388c has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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