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Hodgins a écrit : +><i> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:43:17 -0400, Buchan Milne <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net</A>> +</I>wrote: +><i> > On Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:12:46 Samuel Verschelde wrote: +</I>><i> >> Le jeudi 25 août 2011 11:03:42, David W. Hodgins a écrit : +</I>><i> >> > If the Mandriva way is kept, we must ensure all needed dependencies +</I>><i> >> > are available in Updates (Testing too). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > I note that the exception given for Mageia 1 to have packages that were +</I>><i> > in Mandriva, but weren't available at Mageia 1 release be available in +</I>><i> > updates makes this more difficult. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Agreed. What really makes things worse, is the dependencies of the +</I>><i> dependencies. With kipi-plugins-expoblending, a requires was added for the +</I>><i> package hugin. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Since hugin was only in Core release, the mgaapplet fails to install it. +</I>><i> So, hugin was copied to pushed to Core Updates Testing, and then to +</I>><i> Core Updates. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But, mgaapplet still couldn't install the update for +</I>><i> kipi-plugins-expoblending, even though hugin was available, as enblend, +</I>><i> required by hugin, is only in Core Release, so the dependencies +</I>><i> dependencies must copied too. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Identifying which packages must be copied, is going to be difficult. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Effectively, everything listed by +</I>><i> urpmq --requires-recursive kipi-plugins-expoblending +</I>><i> minus the packages listed by +</I>><i> urpmq --requires-recursive basesystem-minimal +</I>><i> should be copied. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> $ urpmq --requires-recursive kipi-plugins-expoblending|wc -l +</I>><i> 629 +</I>><i> $ urpmq --requires-recursive basesystem-minimal|wc -l +</I>><i> 312 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So 317 packages would have to be copied, to be absolutely safe. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Regards, Dave Hodgins +</I> +I would check it differently : +- for an update to an existing package in mageia 1 you have to compare the +list of dependencies (recursive) to that of the previous package, not to +basesystem-minimal. This will give less results I guess. +- for a package added to Mageia 1 because it was missing but present in +Mandriva 2010.2, it can be trickier. Problems arise when the mdv package is +still present on mageia (from a previous migration) and MageiaUpdate wants to +update it : it can fail if it requires new dependencies. +One way would be to install it in a minimal Mandriva 2010.2, migrate to Mageia +1 and then either : + - check what dependencies of the package have not been migrated + - or install the updated package with urpmi and note what dependencies have +been pulled from release media + +Hopefully urpmi --update's behaviour can be changed soon so that QA Team will +be relieved from those tedious checks ? + +Best regards + +Samuel +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007773.html">[Mageia-dev] Copying dependencies to Updates (Testing), or changing mgaapplet to use urpmi --auto-update instead of urpmi --update. +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007734.html">[Mageia-dev] Status report for Mageia 1 updates, and call for help from you packagers +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7801">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7801">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7801">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7801">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |