pasta unknown version in podman info on arch linux

[MartinX3]

I don't know if it's a bug, but podman info shows me on arch linux

pasta:
    executable: /usr/bin/pasta
    package: /usr/bin/pasta ist in passt 2024_03_20.71dd405-1 enthalten
    version: |
      pasta unknown version
      Copyright Red Hat
      GNU General Public License, version 2 or later
        <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
      This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
      There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

and I don't know if pasta unknown version is normal.

[Luap99]

That is should be the output of pasta --version, it works fine on fedora so most likely a package bug, I suggest you file this as bug against your distro package.

[MartinX3]

Thank you, I created an issue ticket at the arch linux package.

[afbjorklund]

and I don't know if pasta unknown version is normal.

It is normal, unless you use git instead of tarballs for building:

VERSION ?= $(shell git describe --tags HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown\ version")

So your packaging build script need to pass VERSION explicitly:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/passt/blob/rawhide/f/passt.spec

%make_build passt VERSION="%{version}-%{release}.%{_arch}"

[MartinX3]

Thank you, I created an issue ticket at the arch linux package.

[afbjorklund]

I think the release and arch is specific to fedora, only needs version.

make VERSION=2024_03_20.71dd405

[afbjorklund]

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/passt/-/issues/1

[afbjorklund]

It could have been worse, for Buildroot it reports the OS version instead...

[afbjorklund]

package: /usr/bin/pasta ist in passt 2024_03_20.71dd405-1 enthalten

This is a bug in containers-common, there is no filtering for Arch (yet)

• Add version filtering for the pacman package manager from arch common#1934

Like there is for Alpine:

                if cmdArg[0] == "/sbin/apk" {
                        prefix := cmdArg[len(cmdArg)-1] + " is owned by "
                        output = strings.Replace(output, prefix, "", 1)
                }

It probably also need to set the locale to C, to avoid the german...

• Set neutral locale (C) when running package manager or version commands common#1933

Also needs to filter out the Copyright text, after the version output.

• Filter out copyright and license information from the version output common#1931

[MartinX3]

Dankeschön, I created an issue ticket at the arch linux package.

[afbjorklund]

The redundant git information is actually part of the upstream tagging...

$ git describe --tags --long 2024_03_20.71dd405
2024_03_20.71dd405-0-g71dd405

https://passt.top/passt/refs/tags

It doesn't use version numbers, but dates and commits.