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Until now, there were several portability issues in Maneage:
1. Maneage would crash on older operating systems (checked on Debian 6),
where Wget didn't have the '--no-use-server-timestamps'.
2. On a Linux kernel 2.6.32 (of the same Debian 6 above) some features in
'util-linux' (like 'swapon' or 'libmount') wouldn't build and wouldn't
let 'util-linux' complete. These features need root permissions to be
useful, so the wouldn't be used in Maneage any way! But they wouldn't
let Maneage get built
3. The './project shell' command would still read the host's '~/.bashrc',
letting the host environment leak-in to Maneage's interactive shell.
4. The building of Flex 2.64 wouldn't complete due to a segmentation
fault an Ubuntu, but NetPBM (which depends on Flex) would crash with a
wrong usage of 'yyunput'. This had actually caused a non-update to
Flex in a previous Maneage software update.
5. The update Astrometry.net would assume SExtractor's executable name is
'source-extractor'; causing a crash in usage. This forced the users to
manually create a 'source-extractor' symbolic link in the '.local/bin'
directory.
6. The 'reproduce/software/shell/tarball-prepare.sh' script (that is used
for making Maneage-standard tarballs) wouldn't accept option values
with an '=' between the option name and value! It also didnt' print
sufficiently informative messages and errors (for example it would say
"skipping ..." (making the user think there is a problem!), but it was
actually that the file already existed!
7. The 'reproduce/analysis/make/prepare.mk' and
'reproduce/analysis/make/verify.mk' Makefiles that needed to reject
some of the 'makesrc' sub-Makefiles would simply substitute their names
with nothing. But this would cause problems when the name is part of
the name of another sub-Makefile.
8. On the Debian 6 system mentioned above the raw 'df' command's output
wasn't in the expected format; so Maneage would fail to properly detect
the free space in the disk.
With these commit, all the issues above have been solved: for 1, A check
has been added to avoid using that option. For 2, those 'util-linux'
features have been disabled. For 3, the '--norc' and '--noprofile' options
have beed added to the call to Bash. For 4, see below. For 5, the symbolic
link is now automatically made with SExtractor. For 6, the option reading
components of that script have been fully re-written and more robust sanity
checks are also added, with more informative warnings. For 7, the 'subst'
function of Make was replaced with 'filter-out' and this fixed the
problem. For 8, 'df' is called with the '-P' option so it has a unified
format in all versions.
For 4, the versions of 'flex' and 'netpbm' have been updated. Since they
were the dependency of 'astrometrynet', that has also been updated. In the
process, we discovered that 'lzip' has a new version which claims to be
faster, so that is also updated.
lzip 1.22 --> 1.23
astrometrynet 0.85 --> 0.89
flex 2.6.4 --> 2.6.4-410-74a89fd
netpbm 10.73.39 --> 10.73.39
NetPBM needed some manual manipulation in its source (to remove the extra
line), so the necessary steps have been added to its build recipe in
'reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk'.
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Until now, one had to follow the instructions from [1] to prepare a
standard software tarball before merging with the low-level
tarballs-software repository [2]. The script only worked for '.tar.gz'
suffix and was only available as a comment on Savannah (in [1]).
With this commit, the script has been imported into Maneage as
'reproduce/software/shell/tarball-prepare.sh' to simplify future software
updates. It work with all supported '.tar.*' suffixes (of the upstream
tarball repository) and will convert the tarballs to Maneage's standard
format. Also, this script has a minimal argument parser and can skip the
tarballs that are already unpacked, allowing faster tests.
This script was used to update the versions of:
Coreutiles 9.0 --> 9.1
Git 2.34 --> 2.36
Emacs 27.2 --> 28.1
The main motive behind this update was Git which announced a vulnerability
issue [3] and suggested an update to the latest version as soon as
possible. More detail is described in this github blog [4], but in summary,
it was a security issue on multi-user systems that has been found and fixed
by Git developers. Since Maneage is often installed on such shared systems,
it was important to make this update. GNU Coreutils and GNU Emacs were also
updated because they are also commonly used.
The following improvements have also done with this commit:
- .gitignore: ignore emacs auto-save files (that end with a '#')
- README-hacking.md: In the checklist for updating the Maneage branch, the
no-longer-necessary '--decorate' option of Git was removed from the
command to check the general branch history.
[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15699
[2] https://git.maneage.org/tarballs-software.git/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqv8veb5i6.fsf@gitster.g/
[4] https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-announced/
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