[Mageia-dev] Packaging errors to fix

Tue Mar 15 16:00:01 CET 2011

On 15 March 2011 15:47, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>> 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.
+
+that shouldn't matter:
+
+urpmi::media::configure() (which is called by both urpmi & installer) does:
+
+    if ($urpm->{root} && ! -c "$urpm->{root}/dev/null") {
+        mkdir "$urpm->{root}/dev";
+        system("/bin/cp", "-a", '/dev/null', "$urpm->{root}/dev");
+    }
+
+> 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 ?
+