PHP 5.2.x on Fedora 13

June 22nd, 2010

Not all of us are using PHP apps that are ready for PHP 5.3, so we need to rebuild PHP 5.2.x for some newer OS’s. Unfortunately, trying to rebuild the PHP 5.2.13 SRPM for Fedora 11 (the last Fedora to use PHP 5.2.x), on Fedora 13 doesn’t work as-is. The “configure” file ends up broken, and running it produces an endless stream of errors, starting with:

cat: confdefs.h: No such file or directory
./configure: line 387: ac_fn_c_try_run: command not found
...

It took me a while of looking around, but the solution was found on the Ubuntu bug tracker, specifically in the comment #17 by Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, which pointed to a PLD patch for the same issue. Patching the Fedora 11 SRPM with that patch (needs some fuzz) makes it build properly.

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Fedora 13: SSH key management problems with gnome-keyring

May 27th, 2010

Today I upgraded one of my machines from Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 using the fantastic PreUpgrade tool, I found that my usual SSH key management wasn’t working: I had to enter my password every time I connected to a server, instead of it being remembered after the first time, and forwarding authentication wasn’t working either.

These days, SSH key management is handled by gnome-keyring-daemon rather than ssh-agent and I found that gnome-keyring-daemon was only running with the “secrets” component. I did some digging and it turned out that (from /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop) the way things are set up at least in Fedora 13 is that the SSH component only auto-starts if the GConf key “/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop” is set to TRUE. A quick check with gconf-editor found that I didn’t have any GConf keys for gnome-keyring. Not sure if I ever had, or whether this is a new thing but either way that was the problem.

Now, this stuff should get set up automatically when gnome-keyring is installed, in the “postinstall” script of the RPM. So I re-ran (as root) the bit of that script which registers the GConf schemas:

export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source`
gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-keyring.schemas

and then everything was fine after logout/login.
There were no errors in the upgrade log so I’ve no idea what the root cause was, but I’ve reported it.

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