[Opendnssec-user] Re: Summary of the RPM subject

[Ville Mattila]

Hi,

On Wed, 26 May 2010, Tim Verhoeven wrote:

> Sorry for the delay. It's been busy at work. Anyway, for the sqlite
> package. The best method to use is (and the one used at the CentOS
> project) is to create a separate package somewhat like the compat
> packages used to keep older libraries available. But in this case we
> will use it for a newer library.

True.  There must be some common practices on how to package the compat
libraries and how to link against them?

> Then we need to get OpenDNSSEC and SoftHSM to compile using this
> library. I don't like to use things like LD_LIBRARY_PATH or any other
> tricks. We should be able to just point it to the right sqlite
> package/location. If necesarry we need to make changes to the
> configure/make scripts.

I agree 100% that easy to maintain solutions are best and thus I
certainly do not like the LD_LIBRARY_PATH wrapper trick I've implemented
for opendnssec-1.1.0-0.1.rc3 (which I committed just yesterday to
rpmodssec-dev/gitorious).

However, how do you actually point OpenDNSSEC the right sqlite 
location without LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc?  Add the directory of sqlite
libraries into RPATH of the ELF binaries with e.g. chrpath tool?
Are there other possibilities?

> For the build infrastructure. We can use the CentOS build machines,
> meaning that I can submit packages to the CentOS devel repo and they
> get build automatically and become available on the internet. This is
> a also a good test to make sure the packages build cleanly inside a
> chroot.
>
> So, what SPEC files and/or src.rpms are already out there ? If OK I
> can merge them all together and we can all start working from there ?
> I think I already mentioned that my primary focus would be for 1.1.
> Once that is ready we can look at 1.0 packages.

Please do merge.  My current spec files and patches are available at
http://gitorious.org/rpmodssec/rpmodssec-dev/trees/master
(though I probably should've chosen another branch name but then
again it was the very first time tried using git).

The v1.1 spec file (at gitorious) includes all the fixes I had in my v1.0
packages which had sqlite statically linked;  The v1.0 specs and packages
are still available at http://staff.csc.fi/vmattila/software/packages/el5/
but be warned that the tricks for building and linking the sqlite prior
to OpenDNSSEC itself "are not for the faint of heart".

BTW, if you use stuff from my spec files please note there are some
patches adopted directly from Ondřej Surý's Debian/Ubuntu packages
and the opendnssec-sqlite package is based on Fedora 12's sqlite
and this should probably be noted in credits etc. at least.

Regards,
Ville