[Mageia-dev] Packaging errors to fix

Tue Mar 15 14:38:08 CET 2011

Hi,
+
+those who read cooker ml may have seen yesterday my exchange with jeff
+johnson, who pointed us a few errors in our packages detected by his
+buildbot system. Jeff sent me the html page, as his server is down at
+the moment :
+
+http://www.zarb.org/~misc/tmp/stdio.html
+
+As you can see, there is some errors detected by a fresh automated
+reinstallation from scratch. I fixed part of them yesterday , those
+related to touch and Requires(post) ( I think ).
+
+There is lots of others one to fix.
+
+First, the various /dev/null related problem. I am not sure if we should
+assume that /dev/null exist and is working. If we do, maybe we could
+make sure it is created, for example as part as filesystem %post ?
+
+
+2nd, the various group based problem. I have seen them too on various
+occasion, they may be related to nscd, but I am not sure. It would be
+nice to check.
+
+3rd : dbus. There is a vicious loop between dbus and its own library,
+and it seems it lack requires on chkconfig. This part maybe linked to
+the 5th point.
+
+4rd texlive. Is this really need to show everything ( this seems to be a
+%trigger ) ?
+
+5th :
+
+error: removing glibc-2.12.1-10.mga1.i586
+"Requires: /usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES" from tsort relations.
+It seems that /usr/share/locale/ is unowned. On fedora, it is part of
+the basesystem. The question is to find the list of canonical locales.
+
+Solving this one would likely solve a huge part of the loop issue.
+
+
+6th : /etc/shadow is unowned :
+~ $ ssh sisay LC_ALL=C rpm -qf /etc/shadow
+file /etc/shadow is not owned by any package
+/etc/passwd is in setup. Maybe we should also do it.
+
+We could also clean pam as we do not have much to migrate, as we use tcb
+since some years now.
+
+7th : there is lot of loops, some caused by unowned directories  :
+
+error: removing perl-XML-SAX-0.960.0-1.mga1.noarch "Requires(auto):
+perl(XML::NamespaceSupport) >= 0.30.0" from tsort relations.
+error: removing perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.110.0-2.mga1.noarch "Requires: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2/XML" from tsort relations.
+
+Some that are real loop. ( polkit, etc ).
+This should IMHO be fixed.
+
+8th : I do not know what is installed exactly, but I think we would all agree that 
+it look  like "too much"
+
+
+Any remark, anybody wanting to work on some part of the correction ?
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+