[Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

Wed Apr 25 21:52:21 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and nicolas vigier at 25/04/12 19:48 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Nicolas at 23/04/12 10:33 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Hi there
+>>>
+>>> We need a status on following release_blocker bugs. As a reminder we
+>>> have some days left only until RC isos.
+>>> Cheers
+>>>
+>>> #5556    nor    rel    Linu    bugsquad at mageia.org    NEW    ---    Need
+>>> to add rpm-helper
+>>> Requres(post/preun) automatically to packages containing systemd units
+>>
+>> This is quite an important one for upgrades. I'm not sure I have the
+>> relevant knowledge to do this, but will happily help once the rebuilds
+>> come around. Can someone with more rpm-foo volunteer here?
+> 
+> rpm allows to use a script to automatically add requires, but it looks
+> like it's not possible to automatically add Requires(pre/preun) with a
+> script.
+> 
+> So we can use find-requires script to automatically add a require on
+> rpm-helper for package containing systemd units. But in that case the
+> package will be installed almost everywhere (I think everybody has at
+> least one package containing systemd units installed) so it's more
+> simple to add the require on rpm or rpm-mageia-setup.
+> 
+> Or is there a lot of people uninstalling rpm-helper to save space while
+> they are not installing/updating packages ?
+
+rpm-helper can't easily be removed, so that's not a problem.
+
+The problem is on upgrades from mga1. In order to transition to systemd
+we need the new rpm-helper installed early. This will likely not get
+done until late in the transaction and many pacakges which use the
+scripts will already have been upgraded.
+
+So we need to force rpm-helper upgrade before any script that uses it is
+upgraded.
+
+Col
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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