[Scons-users] tagging files (RPM packaging)

[Bill Deegan]

Also:
Which version of Python?
Which version of SCons?
Which OS and version are you running?

Thanks,
Bill

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 1:55 PM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Werner,
>
> Can you make a sample github repo with all the attributes you're trying to
> use, and an example rpmspec file?
>
> That should provide enough information to make sure we fix the issue
> you're running into.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
> SCons Project Co-Manager
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 9:45 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>
>> On 1/1/22 07:16, Werner Reisberger wrote:
>> > The RPM packages I am trying to build with SCons require certain tags
>> > but most of the tags does not work out of the box.
>> >
>> > E.g. The SCons man page proposes the following call to tag a file with
>> > the DOC attribute:
>> >
>> >     # marks file2.txt to be a documentation file
>> >     Tag('file2.txt', DOC)
>> >
>> > This does not work. I have to say
>> >
>> >     Tag('file2.txt', DOC=' ')
>> >
>> > That's because the tag is defined as
>> >
>> >     'PACKAGING_DOC'              : '%%doc %s',
>> >
>> > but DOC attributes in RPM spec files have the format
>> >
>> >      %doc file_name
>> >
>> > It's different with the UNIX_ATTR tag where file mode and owner/group
>> > have to be appended like
>> >
>> >      %attr(644, root, adm) /etc/yp.conf
>> >
>> > The tag command for UNIX_ATTR in the SCons man page also doesn't work:
>> >
>> >      # makes sure the built library will be installed with 644 file
>> > access mode
>> >      Tag(Library('lib.c'), UNIX_ATTR="0o644")
>> >
>> > You need to follow the RPM specification
>> > (
>> http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-anywhere-specifying-file-attributes.html
>> )
>> >
>> >
>> > However the tagging test script on GitHub does it right.
>> >
>> > Like the DOC attribute the following tag definitions need to be fixed:
>> >
>> >         'PACKAGING_CONFIG'           : '%%config %s',            # =>
>> > '%%config'
>> >         'PACKAGING_CONFIG_NOREPLACE' : '%%config(noreplace) %s', # =>
>> > '%%config(noreplace)'
>> >         'PACKAGING_UNIX_ATTR'        : '%%attr %s',              # =>
>> > '%%attr(%s)'
>> >         'PACKAGING_LANG_'            : '%%lang(%s) %s',          # =>
>> > '%%lang(%s)'
>> >         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_VERIFY'     : '%%verify %s',            # =>
>> > '%%verify (%s)' ?
>> >         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_DIR'        : '%%dir %s',               # =>
>> > '%%dir'
>> >         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_DOCDIR'     : '%%docdir %s',            # =>
>> > '%%docdir'
>> >         'PACKAGING_X_RPM_GHOST'      : '%%ghost %s', }           # =>
>> > '%%ghost'
>> >
>> > Unfortunately my python knowledge is rather basic but let me know how I
>> > can help.
>>
>> Looks like this code hasn't been touched in a very long time (except for
>> some fiddling of docstrings and newer Python syntax, it's largely
>> unchanged since 2007) .  One wonders if it's actually being used - you
>> may be a trailblazer here! Not sure if the actual problem is the tag
>> specifications or the tag "compiler" in the code, we should be able to
>> figure it out though.  Help could be as simple as providing a minimal
>> SConscript that shows the problem.
>>
>> >
>> > Happy 2022 and keep on going with your great work!
>> >
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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