[Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 26/04/2012 11:38, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 26/04/12 10:25 did gyre and gimble:
>> Guillaume Rousse skrev 26.4.2012 12:22:
>>> Le 26/04/2012 11:20, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 26/04/12 10:06 did gyre and
>>>> gimble:
>>>>> Thierry Vignaud skrev 26.4.2012 11:46:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At install time, w/o proper requires/... you can't garanty that
>>>>>> rpm and thus the packages it requires may be installed after
>>>>>> the packages needing it for their %post scripts
>>>>>> =>     ERROR
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At upgrade time, w/o proper versionaed requiresn you can't
>>>>>> garanty that rpm and thus the packages it requires wil be
>>>>>> updated before the packages needing it for their %post scripts
>>>>>> =>     ERROR
>>>>>
>>>>> So all of theese packages need to be checked and possibly add:
>>>>>
>>>>> Requires: rpm-helper>= 0.24.8-1
>>>>
>>>> I think it should be Requires(post) and Requires(preun) if possible
>>
>> Yeah, thats the needed ones.
>>
>>>> (tho' someone with more rpm-foo can comment about that in particular).
>>>> You bascially cannot uninstall rpm-helper, so it's maybe not needed in
>>>> this case?
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if that's something we can do with an automatic script
>>>> (find-requires), but it would certainly be nicer than adding it manually
>>>> all the time and they can just be bumped and rebuilt.
>>> We can, that's a task for a spec-helper scriptlet.
>>>
>>
>> So, anyone up for fixing spec-helper so we can start resubmitting the
>> packages that need fixing?
>
> I've never played with any spec-helper stuff so I'd rather not do this,
> but if no-one else steps up, I might be able to look tonight.
Actually, it's rather something for rpm-mageia-setup, which contains all 
other automatic dependencies handlers.

Here is a quick prototype, built to be easily extendable in the future 
for similar cases.
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