On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 01:26:03AM +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently looking into creating an RPM for influxdb 0.9 but have run > into a problem when it comes to the %install step in the spec file. > > I created RPMs for all dependencies which are installed at > /usr/share/gocode/src and these are found and influxdb builds fine > however once the "go install ./..." line is reached in the spec file I > get permission denied errors. > > /home/dennis/rpmbuild/BUILD/influxdb-0.9.4.2 > ++ pwd > + export > GOPATH=/home/dennis/rpmbuild/BUILD/influxdb-0.9.4.2/_build:/usr/share/gocode > + > GOPATH=/home/dennis/rpmbuild/BUILD/influxdb-0.9.4.2/_build:/usr/share/gocode > + pushd ./_build/src/github.com/influxdb/influxdb > ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/influxdb-0.9.4.2/_build/src/github.com/influxdb/influxdb ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/influxdb-0.9.4.2 > + go install ./... > go install golang.org/x/crypto/blowfish: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install gopkg.in/fatih/pool.v2: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/peterh/liner: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/armon/go-metrics: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/boltdb/bolt: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/rakyll/statik/fs: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/kimor79/gollectd: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install collectd.org/cdtime: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: permission > denied > go install github.com/golang/snappy: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/bmizerany/pat: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/BurntSushi/toml: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > go install github.com/hashicorp/go-msgpack/codec: mkdir > /usr/share/gocode/pkg: permission denied > go install github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto: mkdir /usr/share/gocode/pkg: > permission denied > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.YSKjXF (%install) > > Notice how I set a special GOPATH with the intention that "go install" > then installs the binaries into that hierachy. As you can see though > that doesn't work and instead go tries to install the binaries for the > dependencies (!) to /usr/share/gocode/pkg instead of the first path in > GOPATH. > > My theory is that since the sources for these dependencies are located > in /usr/share/gocode/src go ignores the GOPATH completely and simply > assumes that the corresponding binaries should be generated basically in > ../pkg relative to the src directory. > > My question is how am I to handle this? > > At first I thought maybe I need to do a "go install" for each dependency > and ship the binaries in /usr/share/gocode/pkg for each RPM but > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Go has this to say: > > "The standard golang compiler only produces static libraries. There is > little value in shipping these prebuilt, especially since these > libraries are very specifically tied to the exact minor release of the > golang compiler. Instead, each library package should consist of a > -devel subpackage which installs .go source code to > /usr/share/gocode/src, under the appropriate import path. > > Binary packages which build against this source will set $GOPATH to > '%{_datadir}/gocode' ( or '%{gopath}' in golang > 1.2.1-1)" > > So apparently I'm not supposed to ship these binaries but also > apparently go insists installing binaries into a system path which is > obviously a no-go for rpm builds. > > What is the proper way to deal with this? If you find a way to fix this, do let us know by following up on the mailing list. I would like to package up the golang bindings for libguestfs, but I came to the conclusion that golang [upstream] is fundamentally broken when it comes to proper packaging practices (maybe deliberately). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
