[Mageia-dev] Packaging errors to fix

Tue Mar 15 15:47:49 CET 2011

Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 15:17 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> On 15 March 2011 14:38, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> > 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 ?
+> 
+> For this, I would say it's usual Jbj bullshit because it didn't try to
+> search prior art in mdv world:
+
+Well, he didn't say anything, I just looked at the log and tried to find
+some tasks. So indeed, I didn't search prior art. 
+
+> 1) /dev/null is created by makedev which is required by basesystem-minimal.
+> 2) anyway, urpmi creates /dev/null if it doesn't exists anyway.
+> 3) urpmi is used by drakx-installer too.
+> 
+> Every case should be thus covered.
+> However he did saw this error.
+
+That's likely a ordering issue, related to the loops.
+
+makedev is installed in the end, after python.
+
+One package that requires /dev/null is perl-XML-SAX.
+
+$ urpmq -d perl-XML-SAX
+bash
+dash-static
+glibc
+lib64termcap2
+perl-XML-NamespaceSupport
+perl-XML-SAX
+perl-base
+
+No requires on makedev nor basesystem-minimal.
+So now, what requires perl-XML-SAX before basesystem-minimal is to
+discuss.
+
+Also, the usage of /dev/null in a %post is a ope question. Do we want to
+hide some verbose stuff, or should error be show to user ?
+
+> Since we haven't seen this error before, I would like to look how it
+> performed what he did.
+
+I assume that's a simple basesystem installation. How exactly, that's
+indeed a good question.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+