OpenPKG Specs: openpkg/lsync.8@4a34d7a82eab (annotated)

openpkg/lsync.8@4a34d7a82eab (annotated)

openpkg/lsync.8

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:04:34 +0200

author: Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:04:34 +0200
changeset 334: 4a34d7a82eab
child 428: f880f219c566
permissions: -rw-r--r--

Rework package yet again, correcting and introducing new buildconf logic:
Conditionally disable bootstrap stage comparison correctly, correct
english grammar, better find system as(1) and ld(1), indotruce detailed
optimization option messages, more completely guess cpu types, allow
profiled bootstrapping without a preinstalled GCC because many other
compilers have long since implemented 64-bit arithmetic, instruct make
to build sequentially (not in sparallel) when building a profiled
bootstrap as GCC online documents recommend, and generally improve
comment blocks.

The single most important correction in this changeset relates to the
GCC changed optimization policy since at least GCC 4.5, in which -march
is always passed and not always correctly guessed. In the case of this
package, allowing GCC to guess the architecture leads to wild build
errors at various subcomponents (zlib, libgcc, libiberty...) and
bootstrap stages. It seems quite platform specific, and the safest
approach to correcting this seems to be explicitly always specifying the
-march argument when bootstrapping GCC. Because the best choice 'native'
is not available when bootstrapping using a foreign (non GCC) compiler,
a guess is made according to rpmmacros l_platform in that case.

It is questionable as to whether these recent optimization changes
on the part of GCC or this package are compatible with each other,
or if either are complete or correct at all. At least applying these
corrections allows this package to build again in most cases test.

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 .IX Title "LSYNC 8"
 .TH LSYNC 8 "OpenPKG" "LSYNC(8)" "OpenPKG"
 .SH "NAME"
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR \- Access Layer Synchronization Tool
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR
 [\fB\-\-version\fR|\fB\-v\fR]
 [\fB\-\-help\fR|\fB\-h\fR]
 [\fB\-\-init\fR|\fB\-i\fR]
 [\fB\-\-nop\fR|\fB\-n\fR]
 [\fB\-\-quiet\fR|\fB\-q\fR]
 [\fB\-\-trace\fR|\fB\-t\fR]
 [\fB\-\-local\fR|\fB\-l\fR]
 [\fB\-\-uninstall\fR|\fB\-u\fR]
 [\fB\-\-root=\fR\fIroot\fR]
 [\fB\-\-pkgdir=\fR\fIpkgdir\fR]
 [\fB\-\-subdirs=\fR\fIsubdir\fR[,\fIsubdir\fR,...]]
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
 This program activates software packages which were locally
 installed in a sub-directory of a package hierarchy (located under
 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/) by managing symbolic links in an access layer
 (located under \fIroot\fR/) corresponding to package installation
 files (found in \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/pkgname/subdir/) which need to be
 collected in global directories (located under \fIroot\fR/subdir/).
 .PP
 The purpose of this is that individual packages can be installed and
 deinstalled seperately without interfering with other packages while
 all packages as a whole still can be treated like a single package
 (installed into the access layer).
 .PP
 The
 actual creation of symbolic links is as following (\*(L"foo\*(R" indicating an
 arbitrary file; \*(L"bar\*(R" indicating an arbitrary package name):
 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/bin/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/bin/\fRfoo" 4
 .IX Item "root/bin/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/bin/foo"
 This activates the user executeable
 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/bin\fR/foo as \fIroot\fR\fB/bin/\fRfoo. It can
 be found by the shell by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/bin\fR into the environment
 variable \f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR (\fBPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/bin:.."\fR).
 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/sbin/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/sbin/\fRfoo" 4
 .IX Item "root/sbin/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/sbin/foo"
 This activates the system executeable
 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/sbin\fR/foo as \fIroot\fR\fB/sbin/\fRfoo. It can
 be found by the shell by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/sbin\fR into the environment
 variable \f(CW\*(C`PATH\*(C'\fR (\fBPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/sbin:.."\fR).
 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo" 4
 .IX Item "root/man/manN/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/man/manN/foo"
 This activates the Unix manual page
 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo as
 \&\fIroot\fR\fB/man/man\fR\fIN\fR\fB/\fRfoo. It can be found by the \fIman\fR\|(1) tool
 by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/man\fR into the environment variable \f(CW\*(C`MANPATH\*(C'\fR
 (\fBMANPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/man:.."\fR). Keep in mind that \fBopenpkg lsync\fR
 activates any files found in the \fBman/man\f(BIN\fB\fR sub-directory of the
 package, but the \fIman\fR\|(1) tool usually requires the filename scheme
 foo\fB.\fR\fIN\fR before it can find the file.
 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/info/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/info/\fRfoo" 4
 .IX Item "root/info/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/info/foo"
 This activates the \s-1GNU\s0 info page \fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/info/\fRfoo
 as \fIroot\fR\fB/info/\fRfoo. It can be found by the \fIinfo\fR\|(1) and \fIpinfo\fR\|(1)
 tools by placing \fIroot\fR\fB/info\fR into the environment variable
 \&\f(CW\*(C`INFOPATH\*(C'\fR (\fBINFOPATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/info:.."\fR). Keep in mind that
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR activates any files found in the \fBinfo/\fR sub-directory of the
 package, but the \fIinfo\fR\|(1) and \fIpinfo\fR\|(1) tools usually require the filename
 scheme foo\fB.info\fR before it can find the file.
 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/include/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/include/\fRfoo" 4
 .IX Item "root/include/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/include/foo"
 This activates the C header \fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/include\fR/foo
 as \fIroot\fR\fB/include/\fRfoo. It can be found by the C/\*(C+ compilers
 by adding \fIroot\fR\fB/include\fR to their include search path (\fBcc ..
 \&\-I\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/include\fR \fB...\fR). Keep in mind that \fBopenpkg lsync\fR activates any
 files found in the \fBinclude/\fR sub-directory of the package, but the
 C/\*(C+ compiler usually by convention use the filename scheme foo\fB.h\fR.
 .IP "\fIroot\fR\fB/lib/\fRfoo \-> \fB../\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/lib/\fRfoo" 4
 .IX Item "root/lib/foo -> ../pkgdir/bar/lib/foo"
 This activates the C library \fIroot\fR\fB/\fR\fIpkgdir\fR\fB/\fRbar\fB/lib\fR/foo
 as \fIroot\fR\fB/lib/\fRfoo. It can be found by the C/\*(C+ compilers (and
 the linker they use) by adding \fIroot\fR\fB/lib\fR to their library search
 path (\fBcc .. \-L\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/lib\fR \fB...\fR). It can be found by the Unix
 Dynamic Loader by adding \fIroot\fR\fB/lib\fR to the environment variable
 \&\f(CW\*(C`LD_LIBRARY_PATH\*(C'\fR (\fBLD_LIBRARY_PATH="..:\fR\fIroot\fR\fB/lib:.."\fR).
 Keep in mind that \fBopenpkg lsync\fR activates any files found in the \fBlib/\fR
 sub-directory of the package, but the C/\*(C+ compiler usually require the
 filename scheme \fBlib\fRfoo\fB.a\fR and the Unix Dynamic Loader the filename
 scheme \fBlib\fRfoo\fB.so\fR before they actually can use the file.
 .PP
 It is obvious that more sub-directories in a package installation
 might exist \*(-- for instance \fBshare/\fR, \fBvar/\fR, \fBlibexec/\fR, etc. But
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR intentionally does not link files in those directories into
 corresponding directories of the access layer, because those files do
 not require that they are located in a global area in order to be used.
 So \fBopenpkg lsync\fR only creates the access layer for files where a common area
 is required for (easy) use.
 .SH "SPECIAL FEATURES"
 .IX Header "SPECIAL FEATURES"
 There are two special features supported by \fBopenpkg lsync\fR:
 .IP "\fBRun-Command Files\fR" 4
 .IX Item "Run-Command Files"
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR on startup implicitly reads command line options from
 \&\f(CW\*(C`.lsyncrc\*(C'\fR files. They are searched in all parent directories and in
 the callers home directory. Their contents is prepended to the list of
 given command line options.
 .IP "\fBMultiple Package Versions\fR" 4
 .IX Item "Multiple Package Versions"
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR skips all directories under \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/ which contain
 the pattern \*(L"\-[0\-9]\*(R" in their directory name. On the other hand,
 \&\fBopenpkg lsync\fR follows also symbolic links under \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/.
 This can be used for installing multiple versions of a package and
 switching between them. For instance, if version 1.0 of package
 \&\*(L"foo\*(R" is installed into directory \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.0,
 version 1.1 into \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.1 and version 1.2 into
 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.2, \fBopenpkg lsync\fR does skip all three. To enable
 version 1.1 one just creates a symbolic link \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo
 pointing to foo\-1.1. Then \fBopenpkg lsync\fR picks up the files in
 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo\-1.1. If you want to temporarily upgrade to
 foo\-1.2, all you have to do is to change the symlink pointing from
 foo\-1.1 to foo\-1.2.
 .IP "\fBTemporarily Deactivated Package\fR" 4
 .IX Item "Temporarily Deactivated Package"
 One can deactivate a package \*(L"foo\*(R" by going to \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo/
 and running \*(L"openpkg lsync \-\-local \-\-uninstall\*(R", of course. Alternatively
 one can set the sticky bit on the directory \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo.
 Then \fBopenpkg lsync\fR also skips the package. Alternatively, assume
 package \*(L"foo\*(R" as a whole should not be deactivated, but its
 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo/lib directory (usually because this directory
 unfortunately contains non-library files), one just sets the sticky bit
 on \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/foo/lib.
 .SH "OPTIONS"
 .IX Header "OPTIONS"
 .IP "\fB\-\-version\fR, \fB\-v\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--version, -v"
 Display program version information only.
 .IP "\fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-h\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--help, -h"
 Display program usage information only.
 .IP "\fB\-\-init\fR, \fB\-i\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--init, -i"
 Create an initial access layer hierarchy under \fIroot\fR.
 .IP "\fB\-\-nop\fR, \fB\-n\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--nop, -n"
 No Operation \*(-- causes \fBopenpkg lsync\fR to not perform any filesystem
 operations. In conjunction with \fB\-\-trace\fR you can at least see what
 would be executed.
 .IP "\fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-q\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--quiet, -q"
 Forces \fBopenpkg lsync\fR to perform the operations quietly, i.e., without any
 verbose messages.
 .IP "\fB\-\-trace\fR, \fB\-t\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--trace, -t"
 Forces \fBopenpkg lsync\fR to show what filesystem operations are performed.
 .IP "\fB\-\-local\fR, \fB\-l\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--local, -l"
 This restricts the operations to a local package area. This option can
 only be used if you are physically staying below a package sub-directory
 under \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/. For instance, when you are staying in
 \&\fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/bar or \fIroot\fR/\fIpkgdir\fR/bar/bin and use \fB\-\-local\fR,
 all operations are restricted to the package \*(L"bar\*(R".
 .IP "\fB\-\-uninstall\fR, \fB\-u\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--uninstall, -u"
 This performs only package uninstallation operations, i.e., only
 symbolic links are removed. This can be used to completely empty the
 access layer. Additionally it is very useful in combination with
 \&\fB\-\-local\fR in order to uninstall a particular package without having to
 remove its files.
 .IP "\fB\-\-root=\fR\fIroot\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--root=root"
 Sets the root directory where the access layer and package subdirectory
 is located. The default can be determined by running \f(CW\*(C`openpkg lsync \-\-help\*(C'\fR
 (see section \*(L"Current configuration\*(R").
 .IP "\fB\-\-pkgdir=\fR\fIpkgdir\fR" 4
 .IX Item "--pkgdir=pkgdir"
 Sets the sub-directory under the root directory where packages are
 located. The default can be determined by running \f(CW\*(C`openpkg lsync \-\-help\*(C'\fR (see
 section \*(L"Current configuration\*(R").
 .IP "\fB\-\-subdirs=\fR\fIsubdirs\fR[,\fIsubdir\fR,...]" 4
 .IX Item "--subdirs=subdirs[,subdir,...]"
 Sets one or more sub-directories of the access layer on which \fBopenpkg lsync\fR
 should act. The default can be determined by running \f(CW\*(C`openpkg lsync \-\-help\*(C'\fR
 (see section \*(L"Current configuration\*(R").
 .SH "RESULTS"
 .IX Header "RESULTS"
 This program uses the following return codes on exit: 0 (operation
 successful), 1 (system error), 2 (command line error) and 3 (other user
 error).
 .SH "HISTORY"
 .IX Header "HISTORY"
 The idea of filesystem access layers consisting of symbolic links
 pointing to actual package installation areas is a rather old one. It
 dates back to the early days of Unix and was implemented many times over
 the last decades. One of many implementation was \fBGenOPT\fR, written by
 Ralf S. Engelschall for sd&m GmbH & Co \s-1KG\s0, Munich in 1992. The name
 indicates the programs purpose: to generate symbolic links in an access
 layer which was located under \f(CW\*(C`/opt\*(C'\fR. \fBGenOPT\fR was very flexible, but
 hence also very complex. Because of lack of documentation it was never
 released and so only used at sd&m and on all machines which were under
 control of Ralf S. Engelschall.
 .PP
 For Cable & Wireless, Munich, the old \fBGenOPT\fR principle was again
 needed to manage the \f(CW\*(C`/cw/local\*(C'\fR area on their servers. For this in
 November 2000 the functionality of \fBGenOPT\fR was revised, heavily
 stripped down and finally implemented from scratch. The result is the
 current \fBopenpkg lsync\fR.
 .SH "AUTHOR"
 .IX Header "AUTHOR"
 .Vb 3
 \& Ralf S. Engelschall
 \& rse@engelschall.com
 \& www.engelschall.com
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