[Mageia-dev] Missing packages

Mon Jul 25 07:06:19 CEST 2011

On Thursday, July 21, 2011 01:39:45 am Ahmad Samir wrote:
+> On 21 July 2011 08:51, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > 2011/7/21 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
+> > 
+> >> On 21 July 2011 05:50, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+> >> > On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 08:21:40 pm Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+> >> >> On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:55:28 am Anne nicolas wrote:
+> >> >> > Hi there
+> >> >> > 
+> >> >> > Usual mail on missing packages. Please have a look on that list to
+> >> >> > decrease it: http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html
+> >> >> > 
+> >> >> > This is important to clean this list. Please report on this thread
+> >> >> > anything you do for it.
+> >> >> > 
+> >> >> > Cheers
+> >> >> 
+> >> >> I have several (The horde related) and it will take some time to get
+> >> >> this
+> >> >> all done. there are about 30 packages I need to redo and the names
+> >> >> all cahnge to a php-pear-Horde_Cxxxx style
+> >> >> then there is the perlapi-5.12.2 which comes from swish-e that
+> >> >> doesn't build on a 32 bit system. I am working with upstream to get
+> >> >> it fixed, but
+> >> >> they take their time.
+> >> >> But there is one package I have a problem I cannot explain and I
+> >> >> would like
+> >> >> some help:
+> >> >> php-pear-channel-symfony
+> >> >> I have build this package twice with, well at least the system says
+> >> >> so (
+> >> >> and I can install it locally), but it never makes it over to the
+> >> >> mirrors.
+> >> >> I checked the spelling, compared it with other channel packages,
+> >> >> compared
+> >> >> it to SUSE and all looks good.
+> >> >> If someone find a little spare time... it would be appreciated
+> >> > 
+> >> > I found this:
+> >> > php-pear-channel-symfony found in incorrect media core.x86_64 (allowed
+> >> > core.i586)      error
+> >> > 
+> >> > Why did it go to core.x86_64 it's a noarch package
+> >> > How do I move (or remove) this?
+> >> > 
+> >> > --
+> >> > Thomas
+> >> 
+> >> noarch packages are copied to both i586 and x86_64 repos, so the error
+> >> on http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html doesn't make sense to me.
+> >> 
+> >> Another issue it php-pear-channel-symfony provides and obsoletes
+> >> _itself_, this is wrong, IIUC. (I've submitted a new package fixing
+> >> this issue).
+> > 
+> > IIRC, It's a known problem that if you obsolete noarch package it's only
+> > removed from i586 repos.
+> 
+> That probably explains the issue; the new package is no available on both
+> archs.
+> 
+> > --
+> > Jani Välimaa
+
+So how should noarch packages be replaced? I have a lot of horde-xxxx packages 
+and they all need to be replaced with php-pear-Horde_Xxxxx packages.
+Should I just use the <Obsoletes:> command and ask for the x64 packages to be 
+removed manually?
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+