Week 7

Meeting 11

(July 23rd, 2021)

This week I implemented CMake packaging configuration for FOSSology. There were two meetings in this week and this report covers both of them.

Attendees

• Michael C. Jaeger
• Shaheem Azmal M MD
• Gaurav Mishra
• Anupam Ghosh
• Sarita Singh
• Avinal Kumar

Week 7 Progress

• Initial CMake packaging configuration implemented.
• Packages can be built according to the FOSSology previous packaging structure.
• Copyright, ecc and keyword now builds faster.
• To test the current progress, follow the instructions here

Discussions

• Where I can find packaging info for FOSSology?

  • All the scripts and companion files are located inside debian folder.
  • The most important files are control, which contains the dependency and description of each package, and rules file, which contains the make commands for creating the packages.

• What are ${shlibs:Depends} and ${misc:Depends} ?

  • They are dependencies required for creating Debian packages. CMake should be adding them by default so we can safely ignore them.

• Will the new packages have the same structure as the old ones? (Michael)

  • Yes for compatibility purposes Gaurav has suggested exactly follow the same structure as the old one.

• Copyright build is slow because the same object files are being compiled three times, can you improve that? (Gaurav)

  • I can try compiling the common object files beforehand and then adding the executables. But how to know the common object files?

  • Gaurav showed me where in the Makefiles I can find the common object files.

• There are problems with copying the symbolic link and packaging them. So I have to find some alternatives to resolve that.

• With component installing, package description can no longer be set.

• The fossology-common package contains file from fossology-db package. And the fossology-db package is empty.

  • Gaurav said this was unexpected and should not happen. This seems to be a very old bug with packaging.

Conclusion and Further Plans

• Work more on the packaging.
• Improve compilation of copyright and monk agents
• Try to solve the packaging bug and add a pull request for that.
• Move on to implementing testing configurations.