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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:30 pm    Post subject: Using gentoo to build packages for an rpm based distro? Reply with quote

I've got a PC that I use to do all my building and I would like to set up an environment to build packages for CentOS.
Since portage can build rpm's and already knows things that would go into a package spec file, it seems logical to use portage to build packages that are not available for that OS.

Has anyone tried this?
I am interested to know what successes or failures people have had.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CentOS uses much older versions of most packages, so building them on an up-to-date Gentoo system isn't going to produce anything useful.

If you are going to build packages for a binary distro, you need to build against the same libc, gcc, etc.

Does portage actually create spec files? I thought it just cpio-ed ${D} and created a dummy rpm wrapper.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My initial thought was to create a chroot and align those core packages using package.mask/unmask so that all of the deps would be seen by portage. But, on second thought I am trying a bootstrapped centos chroot that I shall attempt to install portage into. I am completely unfamiliar with the portage rpm build feature, you are probably right. But, if I can get a package that will install I will be happy.

Currently I've got 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"' running. My next step will be to install portage and see where I can go from there.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know about emerge integration, but it is possible to build RPMs in Gentoo. The problem is, as floppymaster suggests, that library differences can make some binary RPMs unusable, particularly if the binary relies on very many libraries and/or if the build environment is newer than the target environment. Setting up the target environment and then using chroot to move into it for part of the process may help work around those problems, though.

Another option is to use the OpenSUSE Build Service (OBS). You can either upload your packages to their Web site and let their servers do the building or you can set up an OBS installation locally. (IIRC, they use Xen-based virtual machines to do the work, so it's likely to be a bit of a hassle to set up unless you're already using something similar.)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The rpm support in portage is very limited, it will basically just put the image directory in an rpm container and add the most basic metadata so the data can be unpacked by rpm. The following is all portage does for the rpm phase:
Code:
__dyn_spec() {
        local sources_dir=${T}/rpmbuild/SOURCES
        mkdir -p "${sources_dir}"
        declare -a tar_args=("${EBUILD}")
        [[ -d ${FILESDIR} ]] && tar_args=("${EBUILD}" "${FILESDIR}")
        tar czf "${sources_dir}/${PF}.tar.gz" \
                "${tar_args[@]}" || \
                die "Failed to create base rpm tarball."

        cat <<__END1__ > ${PF}.spec
Summary: ${DESCRIPTION}
Name: ${PN}
Version: ${PV}
Release: ${PR}
License: GPL
Group: portage/${CATEGORY}
Source: ${PF}.tar.gz
%description
${DESCRIPTION}

${HOMEPAGE}

%prep
%setup -c

%build

%install

%clean

%files
/
__END1__

}

__dyn_rpm() {
        if ! ___eapi_has_prefix_variables; then
               local EPREFIX=
        fi

        cd "${T}" || die "cd failed"
        local machine_name=${CHOST%%-*}
        local dest_dir=${T}/rpmbuild/RPMS/${machine_name}
        addwrite "${RPMDIR}"
        __dyn_spec
        HOME=${T} \
        rpmbuild -bb --clean --rmsource "${PF}.spec" --buildroot "${D}" --target "${CHOST}" || die "Failed to integrate rpm spec file"
        install -D "${dest_dir}/${PN}-${PV}-${PR}.${machine_name}.rpm" \
                "${RPMDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV}-${PR}.rpm" || \
                die "Failed to move rpm"
}


I would recommend to not use this for any kind of productive use.
And as others have mentioned, CentOS and Gentoo aren't necessarily compatible when it comes to library versions, init system, filesystem layout, ...
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I understand the disclaimers on the rpm's and I think I ran into the CentOS is too old problem. I wrote a script to translate the rpm packages into a portage readable packages.provided file, and all deps are satisfied when I run emerge -av --config-root=/opt/centos6-i686 --root=/opt/centos6-i686 portage. But, when I try to emerge portage from within the chroot I get

Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge", line 48, in <module>
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1021, in emerge_main
    gc_locals=locals().clear)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 3835, in run_action
    display_news_notification(root_config, myopts)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/proxy/objectproxy.py", line 31, in __call__
    return result(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/post_emerge.py", line 43, in display_news_notification
    news_counts = count_unread_news(portdb, vardb)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/news.py", line 386, in count_unread_news
    count = manager.getUnreadItems(repo, update=True)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/news.py", line 179, in getUnreadItems
    unread_lock = lockfile(unread_filename, wantnewlockfile=1)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/locks.py", line 116, in lockfile
    os.chown(lockfilename, -1, portage_gid)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 225, in __call__
    rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
TypeError: group id must be integer


I added a print of wrapped_args to see what was being passed ...
Code:
['/var/lib/gentoo/news/.news-gentoo.unread.portage_lockfile', -1, 250]

So it seems there is a problem converting 250(unicode I presume) into an integer.

CentOS 6.3 uses python-2.6.6, which is not even in the tree any more and I am guessing portage requires something newer.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That error is probably from CentOS not having the same UID/GID setup as Gentoo (250 is the GID of the portage group). If you want to use Portage within a non-Gentoo system you better use a prefix install.
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