Bug 30046

Summary:	[PACKAGE REQUEST] libboost-serialization-devel
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Kristoffer Grundström <lovaren>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa, lewyssmith, lovaren
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://opensuse.pkgs.org/tumbleweed/opensuse-oss-x86_64/libboost_serialization-devel-1.78.0-1.1.noarch.rpm.html
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	boost-1.75.0-1.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Proposal spec file to build libboost_serialization-devel

Description Kristoffer Grundström 2022-02-14 17:10:40 CET

Description of problem: I've decided to try my luck on building the Unity desktop environment that Ubuntu still offers even though the Unity project is not actively developed anymore (I could be wrong about this and if that's the case, I'm sorry).
To find out what dependencies Unity has in Ubuntu to see if we have all the packages needed in our repos I see at https://ubuntu.forumming.com/question/12381/how-do-i-build-unity-from-source that we don't have libboost-serialization-devel.

urpmq -y libboost_serialization only shows libboost_serialization1.75.0 and that is built from libboost-devel, but libboost-devel does _NOT_ create the libboost_serialization-devel package.

To solve this I searched to find what package that would build it and OpenSUSE's libboost_serialization-devel package gets created from a package that they call boost-defaults.

Rebuilding that src.rpm created libboost_serialization-devel so I'm therefor adding it's spec file in this report in hopes of getting that devel package added.

Comment 1 Kristoffer Grundström 2022-02-14 17:11:23 CET

Created attachment 13130 [details]
Proposal spec file to build libboost_serialization-devel

CC: (none) => lovaren

Kristoffer Grundström 2022-02-14 17:11:58 CET

URL: (none) => https://opensuse.pkgs.org/tumbleweed/opensuse-oss-x86_64/libboost_serialization-devel-1.78.0-1.1.noarch.rpm.html

sturmvogel 2022-02-14 18:40:32 CET

Version: 8 => Cauldron
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2022-02-14 20:25:06 CET

Kristoffer
This is a very doubtful request which seems superfluous because you have already engineered your way round your problem: building (to amuse yourself) "Unity desktop ... the Unity project is not actively developed anymore".
Unless you can say why this has wider interest, I think we should drop this one. It looks specifically for you, to achieve a hobby project.

Note that this is for Cauldron; for M8:
'lib64boost_serialization1.75.0' is in SRPM 'boost'.

I am CC'ing Jani for his opinion about the worth of what you are proposing.
I suggest that it if would be easy to do with the existing SRPM, OK; but anything involving significant work - no. Neither of which I can judge.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa, lewyssmith
Source RPM: boost-defaults => boost-1.75.0-1.mga8.src.rpm

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2022-02-15 01:16:13 CET

We don't have a separate boost devel packages. We only have lib(64)boost-devel which contains all development libraries provided by boost, including libboost_serialization.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX