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Fedora 18 Boost 1.50 Uplift
Summary
This feature brings Boost 1.50.0 to Fedora 18.
Owner
- Name: Petr Machata
- Email: pmachata at redhat com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18 (and its Feature List)
- Last updated: 2012-05-28
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
That feature aims at synchronising the top of the Fedora tree with the current Boost upstream release. The current Fedora release is boost-1.48.0.
As of Fedora 13, the canonical sources used for the package switched from the official Boost release (with BJam build) to an alternate repository (with CMake build, for boost-1.41.0). That alternate repository has been deprecated and may be deleted any time soon (as of November 2011). boost-1.41.0 has been delivered from that (now deprecated) Boost-CMake repository (hosted on Gitorious), where the code base had slightly diverged from upstream.
From Fedora 14, boost-1.44.0 has been rebased on upstream, with a mere patch implementing CMake support. Moreover, there is a new Git repository reflecting those changes, hosted on GitHub (and cloned on Gitorious). That repository relies on the Ryppl project (in particular, on the Boost Subversion replicated repository), created and maintained by two Boost developers, namely Eric Niebler and Dave Abrahams.
The objective is now to keep delivering the latest stable Boost release for each new Fedora release.
Some background:
- Boost package in Fedora
- Boost build status in Koji
- Fedora 17 Boost-1.48 Feature
- Fedora 16 Boost-1.47 Feature
- Fedora 15 Boost-1.46 Feature
- Fedora 14 Boost-1.44 Feature
- Fedora 13 Boost-1.41 Feature
- Boost ships with an ad-hoc build system named BJam.
Technical details are available in a Bugzilla-filed (#754865) enhancement request.
Benefit to Fedora
Syncing with upstream keeps Fedora current. This is part of regular package maintenance.
Scope
The following needs to be done:
- Assess whether cmake upstream is ready, possibly help patch the holes
- Do the initial packaging work (possibly on a branch), add sub-packages for new runtime components
- Request a build system tag (discussion)
- Build boost into that tag
- Post a request for rebuilds to fedora-devel
- Work on rebuilding dependent packages in the tag, fixing any bugs it either the dependent package, or Boost
- When most is done, "merge" the tag
How To Test
- No special hardware is needed.
- Testing of the Boost packages themselves requires the host system to have the boost-test package installed. Testing can then be enabled at package build time by passing --with tests. Note that that testing phase should be done only once per type of architecture and distribution version.
- Integration testing simply consists of installing Boost packages on Fedora 18 and checking that it does not break other packages.
User Experience
Expected to remain largely the same.
Dependencies
There are a large number of dependencies for the boost package in Fedora. Following is a non-exhaustive list, collected from the first Rawhide report:
airrac airsched akonadi aqsis aqsis-core aqsis-libs asc avogadro avogadro-libs barry bastet cclive cegui-python CGAL collada-dom compiz compiz-fusion-extras compiz-fusion-unsupported compiz-gtk compiz-kde compiz-plugins-main easystroke ekiga ember esteid-browser-plugin fatrat fawkes-plugin-player fife flush fusecompress fuse-encfs gearmand glob2 glom glom-libs gnash gnash-cygnal gnash-klash gnuradio gpsdrive guitarix HippoDraw-python hugin hugin-base iwhd k3d kalzium kalzium-libs kig libcompizconfig libmapi libmongodb libopenvrml libopenvrml-gl libpst-python LuxRender LuxRender-core LuxRender-devel LuxRender-lib lyx mapnik mapnik-python mapnik-utils mbox2eml minion mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui mmseq mongodb mongodb-server mygui mygui-demos mygui-devel mygui-tools nss-gui ogre ogre-samples ompl OpenImageIO openvrml-java openvrml-javascript openvrml-nodes openvrml-xembed pdns perl-qpid pingus player plee-the-bear pokerth pyactivemq pyexiv2 pymilia python-gnash python-polybori python-tag python-visual qbittorrent qbittorrent-nox qpid-cpp-client qpid-cpp-client-devel qpid-cpp-client-rdma qpid-cpp-client-ssl qpid-cpp-server qpid-cpp-server-cluster qpid-cpp-server-rdma qpid-cpp-server-ssl qpid-cpp-server-store qpid-cpp-server-xml qpid-qmf QuantLib-test rb_libtorrent rb_libtorrent-examples rb_libtorrent-python rcsslogplayer rcssmonitor rcssserver rmol ruby-qpid-qmf schroot simfqt simspark source-highlight spring springlobby stdair swift tncfhh-examples tncfhh-libs travelccm twinkle undertaker vegastrike vigra-python votca-csg votca-csg-libs votca-tools wesnoth wesnoth-server wesnoth-tools wlmproxy xsd zarafa-server
Contingency Plan
Since we will build in a separate tag, if anything goes wildly wrong, the natural result would be abandoning that tag and shipping Fedora 18 with boost-1.48.
Documentation
- Boost: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0
- Boost-CMake: http://github.com/pocb/boost (the previous wiki is now outdated)
Release Notes
- Boost 1.50.0 Release Notes
http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_50_0
- Boost 1.49.0 Release Notes
http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_49_0