[Libosinfo] Fwd: [patch] libosinfo-0.2.6 has wrong $(DESTDIR) handling and breaks installation on package managers

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Apr 4 08:22:41 UTC 2013


Hey,

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:07:32AM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> I got this patch from Samuli. Christophe already took care of DESDIR
> issue so that part is not needed at least but is the mkdir part
> needed?

I could not hit an issue with the missing mkdir. The rules in
all of the data subdirs will create the db/ directory, but if
we try to create the symlinks before any of the subdirs is processed
(which I guess can happen in parallel builds) then this will be
an issue.

Christophe
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen at gentoo.org>
> Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:45 PM
> Subject: [patch] libosinfo-0.2.6 has wrong $(DESTDIR) handling and
> breaks installation on package managers
> To: zeeshanak at gnome.org, berrange at redhat.com
> 
> 
> 2 problems:
> 
> - /usr/share/libosinfo/db is not created when required
> - $(DESTDIR) is not used when symlinking the pci.ids, usb.ids
> 
> I hope this mail is enough. No credits required. Just push the patch
> if you can, thank you!
> 
> - Samuli Suominen
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> FSF member#5124

> --- data/Makefile.am
> +++ data/Makefile.am
> @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
>  	-wget -q -O $@ http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
>  else
>  usb_ids_install:
> -	$(LN_S) $(USB_IDS) $(pkgdatadir)/db/usb.ids
> +	-mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/db/
> +	$(LN_S) $(USB_IDS) $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/db/usb.ids
>  INSTALL_DATA_HOOK_DEPS += usb_ids_install
>  endif
>  
> @@ -22,7 +23,8 @@
>  	-wget -q -O $@ http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids
>  else
>  pci_ids_install:
> -	$(LN_S) $(PCI_IDS) $(pkgdatadir)/db/pci.ids
> +	-mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/db/
> +	$(LN_S) $(PCI_IDS) $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/db/pci.ids
>  INSTALL_DATA_HOOK_DEPS += pci_ids_install
>  endif
>  

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