[Mageia-dev] Youri check installlation

Tue Apr 5 02:51:43 CEST 2011

Hi
+
+for those who were packagers at Mandriva ( or PLF ), we used to have a
+website showing result of various check, called youri-check :
+http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/ 
+
+Pascal completed the installation of our own instance of youri on
+http://check.mageia.org/ yesterday.
+
+For now, that's still a work in progress, and we do not have everything
+ready ( ie, lots of check are missing for now, we are aware of this ),
+but this should be against to find stuff to fix.
+
+There is 2 checks : 
+- dependencies
+- missing
+
+The first one check if a package has missing dependencies either
+Requires or BuildRequires.
+Any packagers can fix such errors.
+
+The second check if a binary rpm is missing a source rpm. ( there is
+some false positive due to clever trick, like rpmlint-mageia-policy )
+So that's likely one for admins for now.
+
+But do not blindly import missing rpms, something, the requires is
+wrong :
+
+So for example, if you see :
+task-lamp task-lamp-python apache-mod_python not found
+ 
+Check that apache-mod_python is still needed ( in this case, the
+software was dropped upstream since a few years ( and that's a shame
+IMHO )).
+
+On the other hand, errors like the one of backuppc may be a error in the
+check.
+
+
+The page is regenerated every 6h, people curious can look on
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/youri-check/
+
+We can blacklist false positives, so do not hesitate to ask if you see
+something wrong. We will enable the rest of the check later ( ie check
+for updates, check for age, etc ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+