Two questions: "mach" problems on Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) - some distros don't work ...

Marc Wäckerlin marc.waeckerlin at tech.swisssign.com
Wed Apr 21 12:19:09 BST 2010


Hi Thomas
Hi Loic and Hi Ubuntu MOTU Developers


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Motivation
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First of all, thank's for "mach". I am looking for a solution to build SuSE/RedHat-RPMs on my Ubuntu build server. I developed a software for which I'd like to provide distribution specific packages. Since our buildsystem is Ubuntu i386 Karmic Koala, it's no problem to build i386/amd64 binary Karmic Koala, and for other Ubuntu/Debian packages, there's debootstrap/dchroot. But for RPM-based distributions, "mach" is the best solution I found by now.

Or is there any better approach?

Some of the packages to distribute packages are free, but some others have been licenced by us and cannot be set free. That's why I can't e.g. use the OpenSUSE-Buildserver.


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How I installed the package on Ubuntu Karmic Koala, installation problems:
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"mach" is available in the Ubuntu repositories, but unfortunately only in the very old release 0.9.1. That's why I had to compile it myself.

"alien" does not work to convert Thomas' packages for fc11 to karmic, it results in:
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chown: cannot access `mach-0.9.5//var/tmp/mach': No such file or directory
failed chowning /var/tmp/mach to 0:0:  at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 265, <GETPERMS> line 73.
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And so does "rpmbuild" from the source-rpm package: it ends in the same error message.

Installing to "/usr/local" using "./configure && make && sudo make install" results in an installation that does not work. Some paths seem not to be used in the correct way (hard-coded?).

That's why I ended up in the following installation procedure (using checkinstall):
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  ./configure --prefix /usr --sysconfdir /etc --sharedstatedir /var --localstatedir /var
  sudo checkinstall bash -c "make install && chmod u+s /usr/sbin/mach-helper"
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Question 1: Where are the OpenSUSE-configurations?
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In the README, it's documented, that OpenSUSE 11.0 would be supported, but I can't find it in /etc/mach/dist.d/ - how do I install OpenSUSE, what are the "mach" arguments to install OpenSUSE?


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Question 2: Problem installing distributions:
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Then I tested the installation of several distribution, with the command "sudo mach -r fedora-3-i386-core setup build". Where I tried several combinations of distributions, with the following results:
 - fedora-3-i386-core -> Success!
 - fedora-3-i386-updates -> Success!
 - fedora-3-i386-extras -> Success!
 - fedora-4-i386-updates -> Success!
 - fedora-9-i386-updates -> FAILED!
 - fedora-10-i386-updates -> FAILED! (solved)
 - fedora-11-i386-fedora -> FAILED!
 - fedora-11-i386-updates -> FAILED! (unsolved)


As can see in the output below, there are two different errors:

For Fedora 9
 - URL has changed to: http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/
 - I solved this by changing fedorayum to fedorayuma.

But what's the problem with Fedora 11?

Output:
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sudo mach -r fedora-9-i386-updates setup build
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Installing package set 'minimal' ...!
ERROR: /usr/sbin/mach-helper yum -c /var/lib/mach/states/fedora-9-i386-updates/yum.conf --installroot=/var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-9-i386-updates  -y -y install bash glibc failed.
 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: everything. Please verify its path and try again

Retrying installing package set 'minimal' ...!
ERROR: /usr/sbin/mach-helper yum -c /var/lib/mach/states/fedora-9-i386-updates/yum.conf --installroot=/var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-9-i386-updates  -y -y install bash glibc failed.
 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: everything. Please verify its path and try again

ERROR: Could not yum -y install bash glibc
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sudo mach -r fedora-11-i386-updates setup build
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Installing package set 'minimal' ...!                                    
ERROR: /usr/sbin/mach-helper yum -c /var/lib/mach/states/fedora-11-i386-updates/yum.conf --installroot=/var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-11-i386-updates  -y -y install bash glibc failed.                                     
 Setting up Install Process                                                                                 
Resolving Dependencies                                                                                      
--> Running transaction check                                                                               
---> Package bash.i586 0:4.0-9.fc11 set to be updated                                                       
--> Processing Dependency: libtinfo.so.5 for package: bash-4.0-9.fc11.i586                                  
--> Processing Dependency: ncurses-libs for package: bash-4.0-9.fc11.i586                                   
---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.10.2-1 set to be updated                                                        
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.10.2-1 for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686                         
--> Processing Dependency: basesystem for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686                                      
--> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3) for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686                
--> Processing Dependency: libgcc for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686                                          
--> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686                                   
--> Running transaction check                                                                               
---> Package basesystem.noarch 0:10.0-2 set to be updated                                                   
--> Processing Dependency: filesystem for package: basesystem-10.0-2.noarch                                 
--> Processing Dependency: setup for package: basesystem-10.0-2.noarch                                      
---> Package glibc-common.i586 0:2.10.2-1 set to be updated                                                 
--> Processing Dependency: tzdata >= 2003a for package: glibc-common-2.10.2-1.i586                          
---> Package libgcc.i586 0:4.4.1-2.fc11 set to be updated                                                   
---> Package ncurses-libs.i586 0:5.7-2.20090207.fc11 set to be updated                                      
--> Processing Dependency: ncurses-base = 5.7-2.20090207.fc11 for package: ncurses-libs-5.7-2.20090207.fc11.i586                                                                                                        
---> Package nss-softokn-freebl.i586 0:3.12.6-1.2.fc11 set to be updated                                    
--> Running transaction check                                                                               
---> Package filesystem.i586 0:2.4.21-1.fc11 set to be updated                                              
---> Package ncurses-base.i586 0:5.7-2.20090207.fc11 set to be updated                                      
---> Package setup.noarch 0:2.8.3-3.fc11 set to be updated                                                  
---> Package tzdata.noarch 0:2010f-3.fc11 set to be updated                                                 
--> Finished Dependency Resolution                                                                          

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                Arch       Version                 Repository      Size 
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Installing:                                                                     
 bash                   i586       4.0-9.fc11              updates        1.1 M 
 glibc                  i686       2.10.2-1                updates        5.8 M 
Installing for dependencies:                                                    
 basesystem             noarch     10.0-2                  everything     3.9 k 
 filesystem             i586       2.4.21-1.fc11           everything     109 k 
 glibc-common           i586       2.10.2-1                updates         23 M 
 libgcc                 i586       4.4.1-2.fc11            updates         98 k 
 ncurses-base           i586       5.7-2.20090207.fc11     everything      68 k 
 ncurses-libs           i586       5.7-2.20090207.fc11     everything     334 k 
 nss-softokn-freebl     i586       3.12.6-1.2.fc11         updates        137 k 
 setup                  noarch     2.8.3-3.fc11            updates        157 k 
 tzdata                 noarch     2010f-3.fc11            updates        847 k

Transaction Summary
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Install     11 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total size: 31 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) is needed by bash-4.0-9.fc11.i586
rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) is needed by setup-2.8.3-3.fc11.noarch
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])

Retrying installing package set 'minimal' ...!
ERROR: /usr/sbin/mach-helper yum -c /var/lib/mach/states/fedora-11-i386-updates/yum.conf --installroot=/var/lib/mach/roots/fedora-11-i386-updates  -y -y install bash glibc failed.
 Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package bash.i586 0:4.0-9.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libtinfo.so.5 for package: bash-4.0-9.fc11.i586
--> Processing Dependency: ncurses-libs for package: bash-4.0-9.fc11.i586
---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.10.2-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.10.2-1 for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686
--> Processing Dependency: basesystem for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3) for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libgcc for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so for package: glibc-2.10.2-1.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package basesystem.noarch 0:10.0-2 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: filesystem for package: basesystem-10.0-2.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: setup for package: basesystem-10.0-2.noarch
---> Package glibc-common.i586 0:2.10.2-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: tzdata >= 2003a for package: glibc-common-2.10.2-1.i586
---> Package libgcc.i586 0:4.4.1-2.fc11 set to be updated
---> Package ncurses-libs.i586 0:5.7-2.20090207.fc11 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: ncurses-base = 5.7-2.20090207.fc11 for package: ncurses-libs-5.7-2.20090207.fc11.i586
---> Package nss-softokn-freebl.i586 0:3.12.6-1.2.fc11 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package filesystem.i586 0:2.4.21-1.fc11 set to be updated
---> Package ncurses-base.i586 0:5.7-2.20090207.fc11 set to be updated
---> Package setup.noarch 0:2.8.3-3.fc11 set to be updated
---> Package tzdata.noarch 0:2010f-3.fc11 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package                Arch       Version                 Repository      Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 bash                   i586       4.0-9.fc11              updates        1.1 M
 glibc                  i686       2.10.2-1                updates        5.8 M
Installing for dependencies:
 basesystem             noarch     10.0-2                  everything     3.9 k
 filesystem             i586       2.4.21-1.fc11           everything     109 k
 glibc-common           i586       2.10.2-1                updates         23 M
 libgcc                 i586       4.4.1-2.fc11            updates         98 k
 ncurses-base           i586       5.7-2.20090207.fc11     everything      68 k
 ncurses-libs           i586       5.7-2.20090207.fc11     everything     334 k
 nss-softokn-freebl     i586       3.12.6-1.2.fc11         updates        137 k
 setup                  noarch     2.8.3-3.fc11            updates        157 k
 tzdata                 noarch     2010f-3.fc11            updates        847 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install     11 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total size: 31 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) is needed by bash-4.0-9.fc11.i586
rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) is needed by setup-2.8.3-3.fc11.noarch
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])

ERROR: Could not yum -y install bash glibc
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