[Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

Thu Apr 26 13:29:46 CEST 2012

Le 26/04/2012 11:38, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> '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.
+Actually, it's rather something for rpm-mageia-setup, which contains all 
+other automatic dependencies handlers.
+
+Here is a quick prototype, built to be easily extendable in the future 
+for similar cases.
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #398:
+
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