[Mageia-dev] [Announce] Rejection of submission with missing dependencies

Tue Jan 25 13:02:32 CET 2011

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:37, Olivier Thauvin
+<nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> * Jerome Quelin (jquelin at gmail.com) wrote:
+>> On 11/01/22 15:31 +0000, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+>> > I have added a new check in youri, to verify that all BuildRequires
+>> > are available.
+>> >
+>> > If some are missing, they get listed and the submit is rejected.
+>> >
+>> > This way you don't have to wait for the build to be scheduled and iurt
+>> > to try to install them in a chroot. And you also get the full list of
+>> > missing ones, instead of only the first one.
+>> >
+>> > Please report any bug you may encounter
+>>
+>> $ mgarepo submit perl
+>> [...]
+>> Submission errors, aborting:
+>> - perl-5.12.2-8.mga1.src:
+>>    - Unresolved dep on devel(libgdbm_compat(64bit))
+>
+> On Mandriva we had a rules claiming that BuildRequires must be arch
+> independant.
+> This rules still apply on Mageia, isn't it ?
+
+I guess it was never enforced, else iurt would not need to first
+rebuild the src.rpm on the target arch
+And it would anyway prevent from rebuilding things on arch when some
+optional stuff are not available
+
+But yes this dep on lib should not be depending on the arch
+