Игорь Олемской — практические заметки по системному администрированию Linux CentOS

I have some packages which are waiting for review, some are quite old. If you have PHP or Perl skill, please proceed...

Required to be able to update php-pear-File to 1.4.0 (1.3.0 already in the repo), because of a package split (March):
Review #689112: php-pear-File-CSV — Read and write of CSV files
Review #689114: php-pear-File-Util — Common file and directory utility functions

Some new packages to analyse PHP compatibility level (April):
Review #693198:... Lire Waiting for reviewer

During the development of a PHP application, or during its packaging, it could be usefull to check the PHP compatibility, the list of required extensions, etc.

The pci command, provided by the PHP_CompatInfo extension seems (to me) deprecated.
Laurent Laville, in his Bartlett channel, offers a new version 2 (2.0.0RC3 for now), fully rewritten, which seems promising.
I try to collaborate with him, in particular to provide a extension's reference as complete as possible.
RPM are already available in the... Lire Compatibility analysis of PHP applications

This entry explain the recent changes in PHP packages available in rawhide (and soon in fedora 15) about Arch specific Provides and Requires.

1. Package dependencies
All sub-packages automatically have 2 provides (for a while).
For example : php-mysql and php-mysql (x86-64)
All virtual provides from php have been fixed to also provides both
For example : php-mysql provides php-mysqli and php-mysqli (x86-64)  So a web application or a pear package (which are noarch) will still use... Lire PHP and Arch specific Requires/Provides

As I have a new builder, I spend some time to optimize my configuration.

Mainly to use the space available in tpmfs (up to 6Gio), rather than some disk space (which is slow and noisy).
Before, mock launch the build using space (basedir) in /var/lib/mock (a stripped LV for me).
To free the build space used as soon as possible, I use the cleanup_on_success option. But this doesn't work because of a little bug in mock... Lire new builder, new mock configuration

An overview of my weekend and my contributions to the OpenSource world.

fedora / EPEL-6
Clean of the spec files and build of 10 packages for EPEL-6
php-pear-Crypt-CHAP
php-pear-Validate-Finance-CreditCard
php-pear-Numbers-Roman
php-pear-Pager
php-pear-HTML-Common
php-pear-File-SMBPasswd
php-pear-HTML-QuickForm
php-pear-Math-Stats
php-pecl-radius
php-pear-DB-DataObject

php-pear-Crypt-CHAP
This package use... Lire Productive weekend