[Mageia-dev] Youri check installlation

Tue Apr 5 11:54:31 CEST 2011

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 01:51, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> 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.
+
+No it's not, it's a noarch package which contains binary, and was
+built on x86_64 so is not installable eon i586
+
+# rpm -qp --requires
+/distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/backuppc-3.2.0-2.mga1.noarch.rpm
+| grep libc.so.6
+libc.so.6()(64bit)
+libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
+
+So it is not installable on i586
+
+# rpmdiff /home/schedbot/old/backuppc-3.2.0-1.mga1.noarch.rpm
+/distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/backuppc-3.2.0-2.mga1.noarch.rpm
+| grep added
+added       REQUIRES libc.so.6()(64bit)
+added       REQUIRES libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
+added       REQUIRES rtld(GNU_HASH)
+added       /var/www/backuppc/BackupPC_Admin
+