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Bug 217275 - Review Request: ocsinventory-client - Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation client
Summary: Review Request: ocsinventory-client - Open Computer and Software Inventory Ne...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Patrice Dumas
QA Contact: Fedora Package Reviews List
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks: FE-ACCEPT
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-26 10:34 UTC by Remi Collet
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-12-02 08:06:32 UTC
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Description Remi Collet 2006-11-26 10:34:38 UTC
Spec URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client.spec
SRPM URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-1.0-0.1.RC3.fc7.src.rpm
Mock Log: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-build.log
Description: 
Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application
designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of computer
configuration and software installed on the network.

It also allows deploying softwares, commands or files on Windows and
Linux client computers.

ocsinventory-client provide the client agent for Linux.

---
Patch used have be send upstream.

rpmlint warning due to DEVIDE_ID generation (using date):
W: ocsinventory-client percent-in-%post

To test simply run "ocsinventory-client.pl -xml" and read /var/log/ocsinventory-client/xxx.ocs

I also work on ocsinventory-*-server (lot of more job)

I don't know if i should create a separate perl-Ocsinventory-Agent as this extension is only use by this client.

Comment 1 Patrice Dumas 2006-11-26 12:04:34 UTC
* I think that in the comment explaining what ocstag and ocsserver
I think that you should put a reference to the README. Something along

# Can, optionaly, be defined at build time (see README)

* instead of dos2unix, you can use
sed -i 's/\r//'

And similarly you can use sed instead perl to do the simple 
substitution, like

sed -i -e 's|PATH_TO_LOG_DIRECTORY|%{_localstatedir}/log/%{name}|'
logrotate.ocsinventory-client

* I think that the README.fedora should be split in a README.fedora
and README.fedora.fr, tagged like
%lang(fr) %doc README.fedora.fr

Comment 2 Remi Collet 2006-11-26 13:26:50 UTC
Patrice, Thanks for the comments

Spec URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client.spec
SRPM URL:
http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-1.0-0.2.RC3.fc7.src.rpm

%changelog
* Sun Nov 26 2006 Remi Collet <Fedora> 1.0-0.2.RC3
- replace perl and dos2unix by sed
- split README.fedora


Comment 3 Patrice Dumas 2006-11-26 22:34:38 UTC
* %{buildroot} is used everywhere, so I guess $RPM_OPT_FLAGS 
should be changed to %{optflags}. 

* there are some unowned directory issues, %{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/
and %{_sysconfdir}/cron.daily/ (owned by logrotate and crontabs). There
was a thread about that issue on fedora-devel-list, I have no particular
opinion on what is the right solution.

* from looking in the script, seems like there is a missing 
Requires: perl(HTTP::Request)



Comment 4 Remi Collet 2006-11-27 06:34:06 UTC
> there are some unowned directory issues,

Yes. I don't have real opinion too.
logrotate and cron are installed on must system. I don't like to add an require
for them as alternatives exists and "virtual-requires" not.

Spec URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client.spec
SRPM URL:
http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-1.0-0.3.RC3.fc7.src.rpm

* Mon Nov 27 2006 Remi Collet <Fedora> 1.0-0.3.RC3
- $RPM_OPT_FLAGS changed to %%{optflags}. 
- add not detected Requires perl(HTTP::Request)

P.S. I will be away for the next 2 days...

Comment 5 Remi Collet 2006-11-27 08:04:51 UTC
I will also change 
  BuildRequires: dmidecode
  Requires: dmidecode
to :
  BuildRequires: %{_sbindir}/dmidecode
  Requires:  %{_sbindir}/dmidecode

To allow build on older version (RHEL and FC) as dmidecode is provided by
kernel-utils.

Comment 6 Patrice Dumas 2006-11-27 14:30:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> > there are some unowned directory issues,
> 
> Yes. I don't have real opinion too.
> logrotate and cron are installed on must system. I don't like to add an require
> for them as alternatives exists and "virtual-requires" not.

In that case you can add a Requires on the directories, or have
ocsinventory-client own those directories, until they get owned by
the filesystem package.

(In reply to comment #5)
> I will also change 
>   BuildRequires: dmidecode
>   Requires: dmidecode
> to :
>   BuildRequires: %{_sbindir}/dmidecode
>   Requires:  %{_sbindir}/dmidecode
> 
> To allow build on older version (RHEL and FC) as dmidecode is provided by
> kernel-utils.

Fine for me.


Comment 7 Remi Collet 2006-11-28 18:26:20 UTC
> In that case you can add a Requires on the directories, or have
> ocsinventory-client own those directories, until they get owned by
> the filesystem package.

Is this a MUST for the review ?
I look at some core package and don't see anything...

Some improvement to have ocsinventory-client build and work on RHEL and older FC
(i really need this at work).

Spec URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client.spec
SRPM URL:
http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-1.0-0.4.RC3.fc7.src.rpm

* Tue Nov 28 2006 Remi Collet <Fedora> 1.0-0.4.RC3
- requires %%{_sbindir}/dmidecode (kernel-utils in FC3) rather than dmidecode 
- requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT) only on Fedora (not provided on RHEL3)
- patch improved (Fedora is RPM based)


Comment 8 Patrice Dumas 2006-11-28 21:13:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> > In that case you can add a Requires on the directories, or have
> > ocsinventory-client own those directories, until they get owned by
> > the filesystem package.
> 
> Is this a MUST for the review ?

Yes. I make exception for /usr/share/icons/hicolor. 

In the packaging guidelines it is at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-a5931a7372c4a00065713430984fa5875513e6d4

And in that case I think it is relevant, since it materializes
whether you want to have a real dependency on logrotate/cron
or make logrotate/cron optional - which means that the package
owns the directory.

> I look at some core package and don't see anything...

Most core packages haven't gone through the guidelines and lacks the
fedora extras packages quality.

> Some improvement to have ocsinventory-client build and work on RHEL and older FC
> (i really need this at work).

With EPEL, this is indeed something acceptable or even encouraged. 
Besides in that case it doesn't really hurt legibility.

> Spec URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client.spec
> SRPM URL:
> http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-1.0-0.4.RC3.fc7.src.rpm
> 
> * Tue Nov 28 2006 Remi Collet <Fedora> 1.0-0.4.RC3
> - requires %%{_sbindir}/dmidecode (kernel-utils in FC3) rather than dmidecode 
> - requires perl(:MODULE_COMPAT) only on Fedora (not provided on RHEL3)
> - patch improved (Fedora is RPM based)

Apart from directory owning, seems right. Notice that I didn't 
assign the bug to myself, so a reviewer accepting unowned 
directories for those directories can step up.

Comment 9 Remi Collet 2006-11-29 18:34:28 UTC
Spec URL: http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client.spec
SRPM URL:
http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/extras/ocsinventory-client-1.0-0.5.RC3.fc7.src.rpm

%changelog
* Wed Nov 29 2006 Remi Collet <Fedora> 1.0-0.5.RC3
- Requires %%{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d and %%{_sysconfdir}/cron.daily
- define perl_vendorlib on non-fedora (for RHEL3)



Comment 10 Patrice Dumas 2006-11-29 22:09:00 UTC
* rpmlint gives an ignorable warning, % in post is used in date
  invocation:
W: ocsinventory-client percent-in-%post
* the tarball name cannot be used, the name chosen is relevant,
  and used in other distros.
* free software, license included
* follow packaging guidelines
* source match upstream:
34edd057f1937245d06c3515c0ff50ad  OCSNG_LINUX_AGENT_1.0RC3.tar.gz
* sane provides:
Provides: config(ocsinventory-client) = 1.0-0.5.RC3 perl(Ocsinventory::Agent)
perl(Ocsinventory::Agent::Common) perl(Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Download)
perl(Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Ipdiscover)
perl(Ocsinventory::Agent::Option::Update)
* buildrequires right
* %files section right


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