OBS Mailing List Summary, Week 04

by Nathan Cutler posted on 24th Jan 2014

Here is a summary of activity on the opensuse-buildservice mailing list during week 04:

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The saga of Hans’s OBS proxy continued. He described the exact steps he took to install and configure the proxy, but it still doesn’t work.

  • Martin Weber posted some possible fixes in this post – he is already running OBS behind a proxy, but this use case is not particularly well-tested.
  • Hans confirmed that Martin’s fixes worked for him.

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In the osc problems with openSUSE 13.1 thread, Johannes confirmed that the directories in question are located on an NFS share, which would mean the problem might be related to bnc#857610.

  • Marcus triggered a new serve run in the devel:tools:scm repo, so a new package should have appeared there by now.
  • Johannes noted that the problem started after he upgraded to openSUSE 13.1 from 12.3. Also, the problem only appears on certain projects. Details in this post
  • Awhile later Johannes confirmed that the update fixed the problem.

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In the Arch_Extra thread, Andreas Baumann has a question about the Arch_Extra repo, which doesn’t seem to have a maintainer. When he tries to build, he gets a message indicating that the krb5 package is missing. He would like to see the ArchLinux distribution kept up-to-date in OBS.

  • Michael Schroeder wrote that packages are synced automatically once a week, but new dependencies for “packman” must be added automatically to the “preinstall” list. Daily syncing would be possible if there was enough demand.
  • Andreas came back with some more packages that were needed, Michael added those as well, and Andreas confirmed that this fixed the problem.

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Olaf Hering and Jan Engelhardt discussed the finer points of the _ignore_exclusive_arch macro on ppc64 and armv7l architectures in this thread.

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In this thread, Olaf Hering asked about an issue that prevented further work on a package for which a SR to Factory is pending.

  • Adrian noted that the issue is an implementation detail in the factory-auto checker review script, and it is intentional – Coolo wants to see if the submitted source is working at all.
  • Coolo noted that the review state of factory-repo-checker can be seen by running osc rq show

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In the osc kvm builds walkthrough thread, Wolfgang Rosenauer asked about documentation on doing kvm-based local osc builds.

  • Adrian’s answer: osc build --vm-type=kvm ... (assuming the system and kernel support kvm, of course)

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Klaas Freitag notified the list of problems building for xUbuntu_13.10

  • The list referred him to the OBS 2.4.5 Release Notes, which say that an update of the perl-BSSolv package is needed.

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Arsen Shnurkov would like to see OBS build packages for MacOS-X

  • Adrian wrote that OBS does not have parsers for the MacOS package format. Volunteers are welcome to work on this. Since MacOS-X is similar to BSD, such work could eventually lead to support for other BSD-like systems.
  • For details, see Adrian’s post

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Andreas Hauffe is unable to find the nss-pam-ldap package for openSUSE 13.1. Jan Engelhardt suggested that he use sssd to connect to LDAP, instead. This works fine.

  • In response to the original question, Darin Perusich noted that the package names are pam_ldap and nss_ldap