[Mageia-dev] End of the problem on BS

Mon Jul 4 19:26:07 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+we just suffered from a small issue on build system, due to a wrong
+package upload. Some packages have failed due to that, but I resubmited
+them.
+
+To fix the issue, I have restored the older gnome-keyring package, which
+allowed the newer one to be uploaded.
+
+However, we have noticed several point where we could be better :
+- the directory holding old rpms is quite a mess, everything on one
+level. I think having 1 directory per srpm could help use to restore old
+rpms. 
+
+- the tool use to manipulate the mirror are cp and rm. That's error
+prone, and quite stressful. I think a tool able to remove together a
+complete srpm, and able to restore a old revision would be handy.
+
+- the hdlist generation should be more automated. Right now, we have a
+command ( genhdlist ), with specific argument, and needing the path of
+the media, 2 times. We also need to do the rsync by hand.  Again, a tool
+for that would IMHO be helpful.
+
+- the problem appeared because we have suggest installed in the default
+chroot. There is already a bug opened for that. Installing suggest is
+taking useless time, and may hide missing deps, so we should fix this.
+
+- we still lake a way to say "build system is broken, we are working on
+it". I guess the warning label that mandriva deployed could be adapted.
+
+- finally, rpmlint should have prevented upload. We have enabled the
+check on upload, but it seems to be not working. Again, that's something
+that should be fix unless we want another problem to appear.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+