Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bugs/Features Pybombs

[Rick Farina]

On 01/20/2015 01:45 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Richard Bell <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> Reporting what feel like two bugs in pybombs that only arise in CentOS.
>> You won't encounter these in Ubuntu.
>>
>> *1)* Minor feature/bug: The config.defaults file does not contain rpm in
>> the satisfy order list. It needs to be added manually.
>>
> 
> This is a configuration option that you are asked when you first run
> pybombs. On an RPM based system, you should have already done this when you
> first run pybombs:
> 
> Order in which to attempt installations when available, options are: src,
> rpm, deb
> satisfy_order [deb,src]:
> 
> It defaults to "deb,src" and you should change this to "rpm,src". This is
> mentioned on the QuickStart guide:
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki/QuickStart
> 
> And no, before you ask :), we cannot auto-detect this. I mean, we could
> potentially auto-detect a few known Linux distros based on their layout or
> a specific file in /etc or something, but as you've already seen with
> something like CentOS, they tend to change things around quite a bit
> between versions, so it's something we'd have to constantly chase. And we
> run the risk of incorrectly identifying other distros and doing the "wrong
> thing."

There is a cross distro tool for this which seems to be supported very,
very widely called "lsb_release"

address@hidden ~ % lsb_release --help
FSG lsb_release v1.4 prints certain LSB (Linux Standard Base) and
Distribution information.

Usage: lsb_release [OPTION]...
With no OPTION specified it is the same as -v.

Options:
  -v, --version
    Display the version of the LSB specification against which the
distribution is compliant.
  -i, --id
    Display the string id of the distributor.
  -d, --description
    Display the single line text description of the distribution.
  -r, --release
    Display the release number of the distribution.
  -c, --codename
    Display the codename according to the distribution release.
  -a, --all
    Display all of the above information.
  -s, --short
    Display all of the above information in short output format.
  -h, --help
    Display this message.
address@hidden ~ % lsb_release -i
Distributor ID: Gentoo
address@hidden ~ % lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: Gentoo
Description:    Gentoo Base System release 2.2
Release:        2.2
Codename:       n/a


-Zero
> 
> 
> 
>> *2)* Major bug: I'm calling this major because it prevents installation
>> on CentOS and is very difficult to work through for newbies. When
>> installing from source is the primary install option, the recipe files for
>> pygobject and pygtk point to incorrect file locations. The rpms for CentOS
>> 6.6 don't contain these packages so install from source is the only option.
>>
>> *Current Pygobject*:
>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygobject/2.27/pygobject-2.27.91.patched.tar.gz
>> (this file does not exist at the specified ftp location any longer)
>>
>> *Should be:*
>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygobject/2.27/pygobject-2.27.91.tar.gz
>>
>> Similar removal of "patched" modifier for the pygtk path.
>>
>> v/r,
>> Rich
>>
> 
> Sure. Again, though, this is something that we have to constantly chase
> between versions of different distros and how different projects set up
> their downloads. In this case, though, there's no way around it. But that's
> 
> a) why we use the github pull request feature fairly readily to accept
> these kinds of patches:
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki/Contributing
> 
> b) the light-weight recipes (LWR) files are kept simple and
> straight-forward so they can be easily updated as these things so readily
> seem to change on us:
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki/Using
> 
> We definitely appreciate the feedback, though, and will have to see about
> updating the pygobject recipe. Can you provide us with a pull request for
> the working recipe that you have?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
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