Re: Red Hat & Fedora -- largely stepping out of this ecosystem

2023-06-29 Thread Frederic Berat
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 6:41 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > On 6/26/23 18:47, Jeff Law wrote: > >> What Red Hat has done may be technically legal and perhaps good for > >> its business. However, to me it's ethically unconscionable. Those > >> who know me know I'm not an

Assess impact of package changes with the mass prebuilder

2022-12-06 Thread Frederic Berat
Hello Fedora community, The Christmas period is coming, and soon after the Fedora mass rebuild will come and may lead to the creation of a bunch of FTBFS bugzillas. I'd like to share with you the availability of a tool that we started to develop this year, which aims to help developers to assess

Re: GCC 13 broke 50 packages requiring libgnat-12.so() and libgnarl-12.so()

2023-01-18 Thread Frederic Berat
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 4:07 AM John Reiser wrote: > > On 1/17/23 14:37, Björn Persson wrote: > > > So as things stand, these rebuilds need to be done by a human who knows > > the dependency graph. > > Requiring "a human who knows the dependency graph" is *severely* broken. > There should be a she

Re: Assess impact of package changes with the mass prebuilder

2023-03-08 Thread Frederic Berat
c one (based on ssh/mock). As usual, please provide feedback, and don't hesitate to request for new features. Frédéric Bérat Senior Software Engineer, Platform Tools Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> fbe...@redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 11:45 AM

Re: libxml2 2.12.0 (and 2.12.1) in rawhide, with some API breaks

2023-11-27 Thread Frederic Berat
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:07 PM David King wrote: > The latest released versions of libxml2 have a couple of important > changes in header files that have unintentionally caused some packages > to fail to build without modification, including: > > * several functions now accept or return a const

Re: libxml2 2.12.0 (and 2.12.1) in rawhide, with some API breaks

2023-11-27 Thread Frederic Berat
Le lun. 27 nov. 2023, 16:45, Leigh Scott a écrit : > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:07 PM David King wrote: > > > - Out of the 13 packages that seem correlated but don't show obvious > errors > > directly related to libxml2, there are still some quite suspicious ones, > > like cinnamon which fails

[rawhide] Added support for runstatedir configure option in redhat-rpm-config

2022-08-30 Thread Frederic Berat
Hello, I'd like to inform you that starting from redhat-rpm-config-230-1.fc38, the "%configure" macro will check for the availability of the "--runstatedir" option in the configure script and make use of it if it is. Frédéric Bérat Senior Software Engineer, Platform Tools Red Hat fbe...@redhat

Re: User SSH access to Copr builders

2024-03-19 Thread Frederic Berat
That's great news ! Thanks. On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM Jakub Kadlcik wrote: > Hello, > this may be a useful feature for many people, so I wanted to announce it > separately. > > Debugging failed Copr builds became much easier with the last release. > https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/rele

Re: Announcing fmt library soversion bump

2022-07-11 Thread Frederic Berat
Hello, > Setting up a copr repo to find all other breakages sounds like a good idea. I'm actually working on a tool to help with such use cases. It may be a bit early since I only made an internal alpha release, and only planned to go public by the end of this month with it, but since that may he

Self Introduction: Frédéric Bérat

2022-01-13 Thread Frederic Berat
Hi everyone, I'm Fred, a newcomer in the glorious Fedora community. I've been working on Linux for multiple companies for a bit more than 10 years, from developing kernel drivers to maintaining userspace debug tools. I worked on Systemtap and elfutils internal packages in my previous work, and mad

Re: libtool issue with EPEL10

2024-10-28 Thread Frederic Berat
On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 3:18 AM Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'm trying to build netcdf in EPEL10 but the test suite is failing to > run with: > > /builddir/build/BUILD/netcdf-c-4.9.2/build/ncgen3/.libs/lt-ncgen3: error > while loading shared libraries: libnetcdf.so.19: cannot open shared > object fi

[Heads-up] Automake 1.17 will soon get into rawhide

2024-12-03 Thread Frederic Berat
Hello, Automake version 1.17 will land in rawhide in a short while. Please be aware that a 18 packages that depend on automake fail to build due to the version upgrade (they have a dependency on version 1.16). The list of packages is available in the mass-prebuilder report below: # Mass-prebuild