Today I built and pushed the Tor RPM(s) for 0.4.7.11. Please make sure that you upgrade your relays and bridges. I have the updated package for Fedora 37 too (which also released today).

You can know more about the Tor's RPM respository at https://support.torproject.org/rpm/.

If you have any queries, feel free to find us over #tor or #tor-relay channel on OFTC.

Last night I built and pushed the Tor RPM(s) for 0.4.7.8. This is a security update, so please make sure that you upgrade your relays and bridges.

You can know more about the Tor's RPM respository at https://support.torproject.org/rpm/

If you have any queries, feel free to find us over #tor channel on OFTC.

Let me introduce rpm-macros-virtualenv 0.0.1 to you all.

This is a small set of RPM macros, which can be used by the spec files to build and package any Python application along with a virtualenv. Thus, removing the need of installing all dependencies via dnf/rpm repository. One of the biggest usecase will be to help to install latest application code and all the latest dependencies into a virtualenv and also package the whole virtualenv into the RPM package.

This will be useful for any third part vendor/ISV, who would want to package their Python application for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS along with the dependencies. But, remember not to use this for any package inside of Fedora land as this does not follow the Fedora packaging guidelines.

This is the very initial release, and it will get a lot of updates in the coming months. The project idea is also not new, Debian already has dh-virtualenv doing this for a long time.

How to install?

I will be building an rpm package, for now download the source code and the detached signature to verify it against my GPG key.

wget https://kushaldas.in/packages/rpm-macros-virtualenv-0.0.1.tar.gz
wget https://kushaldas.in/packages/rpm-macros-virtualenv-0.0.1.tar.gz.asc
gpg2 --verify rpm-macros-virtualenv-0.0.1.tar.gz.asc rpm-macros-virtualenv-0.0.1.tar.gz

Untar the directory, and then copy the macros.python-virtualenv file to the RPM macros directory in your system.

tar -xvf rpm-macros-virtualenv-0.0.1.tar.gz
cd rpm-macros-virtualenv-0.0.1/
sudo cp macros.python-virtualenv /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/

How to use?

Here is a minimal example.

# Fedora 27 and newer, no need to build the debug package
%if 0%{?fedora} >= 27 || 0%{?rhel} >= 8
%global debug_package %{nil}
%endif
# Use our interpreter for brp-python-bytecompile script
%global __python /opt/venvs/%{name}/bin/python3


%prep
%setup -q

%build
%pyvenv_create
%{__pyvenvpip3} install --upgrade pip
%pyvenv_build

%install
%pyvenv_create
%{__pyvenvpip3} install --upgrade pip
%pyvenv_install
ln -s /opt/venvs/%{name}/bin/examplecommand $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/examplecommand

%files
%doc README.md LICENSE
/opt/venvs/%{name}/*

As you can see, in both %build and in %install, first we have to call %pyvenv_install, that will create our virtualenv. Then we are installing the latest pip in that environment.

Then in the %build, we are calling %pyvenv_build to create the wheel.

In the %install section, we are calling %pyvenv_install macro to install the project, this command will also install all the required dependencies (from the requirements.txt of the project) by downloading them from https://pypi.org.

If you have any command/executable which gets installed in the virtualenv, you should create a symlink to that from $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/ directory in the %install section.

Now, I have an example in the git repository, where I have taken the Ansible 2.7.1 spec file from Fedora, and converted it to these macros. I have build the package for Fedora 25 to verify that this works.