rpm2html @1.9.6 needs the automake1.13 fix (among other things)

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

I think I'll just attach my main.log from my latest failed build attempt

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

rpm2html's failure of a main.log

[afb@…]

Hmm, wonder why one would upgrade to such a breaking version of automake ? And with no port for automake 1.12 ?

Fixed, r104209.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to afb@…:

Hmm, wonder why one would upgrade to such a breaking version of automake ? And with no port for automake 1.12 ?

It's a long-standing issue: #37438

[afb@…]

Yeah, still a shame that there are no releases that would make such a change known...

Sadly there is no package built either, because the python25 symlinks are still broken:

Error: org.macports.activate for port rpm returned: Image error: /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port rpm. Use 'port -f activate rpm' to force the activation.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to afb@…:

Yeah, still a shame that there are no releases that would make such a change known...

Sadly there is no package built either, because the python25 symlinks are still broken:

Error: org.macports.activate for port rpm returned: Image error: /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port rpm. Use 'port -f activate rpm' to force the activation.

That's because the rpm that rpm2html depends on is very old. I made a new issue about this: #38456

[afb@…]

Replying to egall@…:

That's because the rpm that rpm2html depends on is very old. I made a new issue about this: #38456

I don't think the age of it is the issue here, just that the symlink trick from python25 isn't working well.

Not that rpm/rpm2html couldn't be updated, just saying.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The python.pkgd for python25 is ${prefix}/lib/python2.5/site-packages, and that's unlikely to change before we drop python25. It's different in the newer pythons of course.

In any case, moving files in pre-activate is completely wrong and rpm should stop doing that.

[afb@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

In any case, moving files in pre-activate is completely wrong and rpm should stop doing that.

It now does (in r104239), hope that helps. Sadly no packages, because of the libedit dependency:

dependency 'readline' has license 'GPL-3+' which conflicts with license 'GPL-2' from 'rpm'

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Besides fixing the macro for automake1.13, configure.in should probably be moved to configure.ac for the upcoming automake1.14, too, while you're at it.