[Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

Thu Apr 26 11:38:50 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 26/04/12 10:25 did gyre and gimble:
+> Guillaume Rousse skrev 26.4.2012 12:22:
+>> Le 26/04/2012 11:20, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>>> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 26/04/12 10:06 did gyre and
+>>> gimble:
+>>>> Thierry Vignaud skrev 26.4.2012 11:46:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> At install time, w/o proper requires/... you can't garanty that
+>>>>> rpm and thus the packages it requires may be installed after
+>>>>> the packages needing it for their %post scripts
+>>>>> =>    ERROR
+>>>>>
+>>>>> At upgrade time, w/o proper versionaed requiresn you can't
+>>>>> garanty that rpm and thus the packages it requires wil be
+>>>>> updated before the packages needing it for their %post scripts
+>>>>> =>    ERROR
+>>>>
+>>>> So all of theese packages need to be checked and possibly add:
+>>>>
+>>>> Requires: rpm-helper>= 0.24.8-1
+>>>
+>>> I think it should be Requires(post) and Requires(preun) if possible
+> 
+> Yeah, thats the needed ones.
+> 
+>>> (tho' someone with more rpm-foo can comment about that in particular).
+>>> You bascially cannot uninstall rpm-helper, so it's maybe not needed in
+>>> this case?
+>>>
+>>> Not sure if that's something we can do with an automatic script
+>>> (find-requires), but it would certainly be nicer than adding it manually
+>>> all the time and they can just be bumped and rebuilt.
+>> We can, that's a task for a spec-helper scriptlet.
+>>
+> 
+> So, anyone up for fixing spec-helper so we can start resubmitting the
+> packages that need fixing?
+
+I've never played with any spec-helper stuff so I'd rather not do this,
+but if no-one else steps up, I might be able to look tonight.
+
+Col
+
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