[Mageia-dev] Copying dependencies from Release to Updates Testing

Thu Sep 8 13:52:49 CEST 2011

Le Jeudi 8 Septembre 2011 13:53:07 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 8 septembre 2011 10:39:47, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > Hi,
+> > 
+> > During yesterday's packager meeting, it was agreed that the
+> > sysadmins will provide a tool allowing packagers to copy packages
+> > from Release media to Updates Testing media.
+> > 
+> > QA Team should be able soon to ask the packagers to provide needed
+> > dependencies in Updates Testing so that updates are not blocked by
+> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317
+> > 
+> > Then those dependencies will have to be moved from Updates Testing
+> > to Updates, like the other packages submitted by the packagers
+> > for the update.
+> > 
+> > Could someone complete the update procedure wiki page with
+> > detailed
+> > instructions for packagers to follow, regarding how to identify
+> > dependencies that need to be copied to Updates Testing along with
+> > an update candidate ?
+> > 
+> > Until that tool is made available, we can list the needed
+> > dependencies in the bug report and ask the sysadmins to move them
+> > directly.
+> > 
+> > Best regards
+> > 
+> > Samuel Verschelde
+> 
+> Good question from MrsB : must we link only the needed binary RPMs, or
+> all those coming from the SRPM ?
+> 
+> Example : qt4-database-plugin-sqlite-4.7.3-1.mga1.i586.rpm is needed,
+> will we link all packages from the qt4 SRPM or only
+> qt4-database-plugin- sqlite-4.7.3-1.mga1.i586.rpm ? The first option
+> is probably cleaner, but this means copy much more packages.
+Well we shoud links only the *requirements* for qt4-database-plugin- 
+sqlite so probably not all qt4 packages (but most of them :/ )
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+