Based on recent IRC discussions, some changes were made to the patchify script [0] and the Fedora package archive scanned again. The overall goal is to try to find all of those Fedora packages that use autoconf or ./configure to build but that do not yet have the updates to recognize 'aarch64' as a valid target (i.e., they need newer versions of config.sub or config.guess). And, if they do not, generate a patch that will add the latest config.* files. What changed? The parsing of the spec file needed to look at the %build and %prep sections is a bit smarter. It used to see some uses of autoconf/configure in the initial prologue for a spec file (e.g., BuildRequires: autoconf) as a proper use of autoconf when it clearly is not. Additionally, if autoreconf is being used outside of an if-block, and it is using -i/--install and -f/--force, these are packages that will correct themselves on build so do not need patching [1]. These changes should eliminate some false positives and catch some packages that may have inadvertently been skipped over. The list of packages needing patching is here: http://fedorapeople.org/~ahs3/patchify/run4/patched.pkgs This lists 2027 packages that need patching (most of which already have bugs filed against them, but there were some new ones found (341) and others removed (290). I'll be comparing this against the aarch64 tracking bug [2] to be sure we're in sync and all the right notifications have been made. Note that all of the package lists and a README describing what each list represents are also at: http://fedorapeople.org/~ahs3/patchify/run4/ Some data I found interesting from this scan [3] are: -- there are 572 dead packages in the archive -- 196 packages already use autoreconf -i -f which is higher than I thought it might be -- there are 105 cases where it's difficult to determine the source directory name when all you have is the package name -- a lot of packages use ./configure, but most of them do not need or use config.sub/config.guess And the best one: 579 packages have already been modified to use the latest config.sub/config.guess and are already able to handle aarch64. So, action items for me are: (1) make sure the AArch64 tracking bug is listing bugs for the right list of packages, and (2) help close as many of those bugs as I can. If you can help, please do. Notes: [0] git://fedorapeople.org/~ahs3/patchify.git [1] The specific package list is: http://fedorapeople.org/~ahs3/patchify/run4/autoreconf.pkgs [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922257 [3] This is the output summary from the scan: --- Results --- Total packages examined: 12088 Total dead packages: 572 Total packages using autoreconf properly: 196 Total patches available: 2027 Total packages using ./configure but not config.*: 8353 Total packages using config.* with aarch64 in them: 579 --- Configuration --- 365 use autoconf in some recognized form 196 use autoreconf with correct options 3512 use configure in some recognized form 7715 do not mention autoconf or configure --- Error Conditions --- 0 cases of unclassified errors 251 cases where we could not unpack the SRPM 1 cases where we there was no spec file 105 cases where we could not find the source directory 0 cases where we could not cp -r the source directory 0 cases where "find config.*" reported errors 4 cases where we could not overwrite a config.* file -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
