[scl.org] devtoolset 2?

Honza Horak hhorak at redhat.com
Tue Mar 1 07:30:30 UTC 2016


On 02/27/2016 09:57 PM, Dave Johansen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com
> <mailto:davejohansen at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Dave Johansen
>     <davejohansen at gmail.com <mailto:davejohansen at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com
>         <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>             On 01/13/2016 05:14 AM, Dave Johansen wrote:
>
>                 On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Honza Horak
>                 <hhorak at redhat.com <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com>
>                 <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com>>>
>                 wrote:
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>                      On 01/06/2016 05:41 PM, Dave Johansen wrote:
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>                          On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Honza Horak
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>                 <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com> <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com
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>                               On 01/05/2016 04:35 PM, Dave Johansen wrote:
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>                                   On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Honza
>                 Horak
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>                 <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com> <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com
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>                                        Interesting, you're first who
>                 asks for that.
>                          Currently,
>                                   there is
>                                        nobody working on it.
>
>
>                                   We're working on moving to EL 7, but
>                 still need to
>                          support EL 6
>                                   installations. We'd also like to start
>                 allowing use of
>                          C++11 in
>                                   our code
>                                   base and using the same version of gcc
>                 on both EL 6 and
>                          7 seemed
>                                   like
>                                   the best way to accomplish both of
>                 these goals.
>
>                                        If you're willing to try that, I
>                 wouldn't be
>                          against, I
>                                   just must
>                                        warn you that rebuilding
>                 devtoolset is always a
>                          lot of fun
>                                   (like
>                 https://www.redhat.com/archives/sclorg/2015-December/msg00050.html)..
>
>
>                                   What's the best way to start this?
>                                   Are there modifications that are
>                 required for source
>                          .rpm (removing
>                                   RedHat naming, etc)? Or is it just
>                 start building it
>                          and dealing
>                                   with
>                                   the issues that pop up?
>
>
>                               There is no need to remove any naming, we
>                 usually take srpm
>                          from RH
>                               and rebuild. However, the bootstrapping is
>                 usually very
>                          challenging.
>                               I'd recommend first to try to rebuild at
>                 least basic packages
>                               yourself using mock (or copr), so you see
>                 how far you can get..
>                               Then, if you'll see it is worth the work,
>                 we can create
>                          tags/targets
>                               in CBS and start with real rebuilds.
>
>
>                          I was just going to start playing around with
>                 this on COPR and I
>                          noticed
>                          that there appears to already be an existing
>                 build of devtoolset-2:
>                 https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhscl/devtoolset/
>
>                          It looks like it's not complete because only
>                 some of the packages
>                          succeeded, but would that serve as the best
>                 starting point? If so,
>                          what's the best way to move forward with that?
>
>
>                      Well, why not, I can add you as collaborator in
>                 this project -- what
>                      is your copr username? However, I'm afraid that
>                 whoever tried that,
>                      he got blocked on some non easy issues, which is
>                 the reason why it
>                      is not finished.
>
>
>                 My username is daveisfera.
>
>
>             Well, I've realized the copr is not named devtoolset-2, but
>             just devtoolset, which is not ideal.. and renaming is not
>             possible in copr.. maybe it would be better if you'd create
>             your own copr, which has correct name..
>
>                 Is there anything special that needs to be done to do
>                 these builds?
>
>
>             Honestly, I don't know what is necessary to fix the builds,
>             but since they were failing, I expect something would need
>             to be fixed.
>
>                 Is there an original location for the source rpms? And
>                 is this COPR use
>                 those or some modification of them?
>
>
>             The sources are available here:
>             http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/RHDevToolset/SRPMS/
>
>
>         It looks like the source .rpm for felix-gogo-parent is missing.
>         What needs to happen for that to be added?
>
>
>     Also, it appears that some of them depend on maven plugins that
>     aren't available:
>     https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/daveisfera/devtoolset2/epel-6-x86_64/00163449-devtoolset-2-apache-commons-codec/root.log.gz
>     What can be done to resolve that?
>
>
> It looks like the maven packages are supposed to come from the maven
> SCL, so never mind about that. On a related note, the odd thing is that
> some of the apache-common packages are in the devtoolset SCL and other
> are in maven SCL. It just seems kind of odd to be broken up that way,
> but whatever works I guess.
>
> So, the only real issue seems to be the missing source .rpm for
> felix-gogo-parent.

Do you think sources from devtoolset-3 could be used?
https://github.com/sclorg-distgit/felix-gogo-parent/tree/sig-sclo6-devtoolset-3-rh

Honza




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