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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca> wrote: |
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> On 25/02/14 04:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Hello, folks. |
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>> First of all, two technical matters: |
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>> 1. I think we have new people on systemd@g.o, you may want to subscribe |
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>> to gentoo-systemd@ mailing list if you didn't, |
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>> 2. Does anyone feel like needing a team meeting? |
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>> Now, for the core issue. |
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>> As most of you probably already know, systemd-209 has replaced |
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>> the separate libsystemd-* libraries with a single libsystemd.so. |
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>> Upstream has provided --enable-compat-libs switch to install |
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>> backwards-compat pkg-config files (that all use '-lsystemd') |
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>> and backwards-compat .so libraries. The latter used some magic in -209 |
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>> and is just verbatim copy of libsystemd.so in -210. |
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>> As I see it, we have three options now: |
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>> 1. install both compat pkg-config files and libs (wasting space), |
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>> 2. install only pkg-config files (a bit of build system hackery but |
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>> easy), |
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>> 3. do not install compat-libs and fix the rev-deps. |
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>> I've committed a p.masked systemd-210 using option 2 today but it's |
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>> still open to discussion. I'm currently testing all the rev-deps. |
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>> I think that (2) is best since it leaves most of the packages working |
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>> (only the few that don't do pkg-config break) and links them properly |
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>> to the future lib. That is, when we drop the compat completely people |
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>> will only have build-time failures and no mis-linked packages. |
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>> I've started reporting bugs about packages that fail with it. I'm |
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>> already explaining maintainers what the sit is and how to be |
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>> future-proof. See bug #502422 [1] for an example. |
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>> I don't think there's a point disabling compat completely right now. |
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>> I'd rather wait a while till upstreams note the change and start |
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>> updating the packages themselves. We can then only fix the few |
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>> remaining ones as appropriate. |
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>> What are your thoughts? |
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>> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502422 |
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> Can't we install the libs as symlinks? |
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That's actually what I ended up doing locally to work around the |
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multipath-tools build failure. This does the trick: |
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ln -s libsystemd.so /usr/lib64/libsystemd-daemon.so |
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It seems pretty dirty to me, but we can certainly add that to the |
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ebuild if the bugs mgorny has filed do not get fixed in a reasonable |
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timeframe. |
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