[Mageia-dev] Missing packages

Mon Jul 25 13:04:54 CEST 2011

On 25 July 2011 07:06, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+Probably yes. Note that the problem Jani talked about is pertinent to
+x86_64 mirrors; on users' installations the Obsoletes should work as
+expected, IIUC.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+