Bug 575586

Summary:	sys-devel/prelink: upstream change and version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dainius Masiliūnas <pastas4>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	itumaykin+gentoo, pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/prelink-cross/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	393673
Attachments:	prelink-20151030.ebuild

Description Dainius Masiliūnas 2016-02-24 23:49:50 UTC

Created attachment 426478 [details]
prelink-20151030.ebuild

Looking at the current status of prelink, the original upstream repository is now dead:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/prelink.git/

That also explains why the latest prelink is from four years ago.

The project has been taken up by the yocto project instead (they consider themselves the new upstream, see http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/prelink-cross/commit/?id=1786513e60ef24649e843b24012d05cc6f9a3f12 ). They renamed it to prelink-cross and added various features, like cross-compilation support and support for the x32 ABI. The repository is:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/prelink-cross/

They already have a new release (20151030) out as well.

Attached is a modified ebuild of the old prelink to use the new upstream. It probably needs some cleanup. (Whether it should still be called prelink, or renamed to prelink-cross, is a bit of an open question; the binary is still just called "prelink".)

Also, FEATURES=test still fails, like with the old prelink (bug #477204). It seems to be caused by greps succeeding in testsuite/*.sh; I don't really see why it would be expected for them to fail...

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-02-29 18:57:38 UTC

Fedora abandoned prelink because it does not (and cannot, by design) work with PIEs/ASLR.  Yocto taking it over makes sense as it's an embedded project, and sometimes people will sacrifice security for slightly faster runtime.

thanks for the heads up on the new site.  maybe we can actually get patches merged back upstream :).

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2016-04-03 01:27:03 UTC

now in the tree.  let's see how well it works for people.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=63e6d2abd96c1f878cc7b0633fce1ce3ce98d032