[Mageia-dev] Urpmi raise an erreur when installing a .spec file

Fri Aug 10 00:07:12 CEST 2012

* Thierry Vignaud (thierry.vignaud at gmail.com) wrote:
+> 
+> What's the link with "assume I'am installing a noarch rpm" and
+> "from spec file" ???
+> 
+> You asked urpmi to install missing BR from the spec, it tries
+> to do so, and one of the needed BR is provided by this perl-Forge
+> package of yours (so we can't check it) and it must do something
+> very weird (maybe silent error in %pre, I really can't tell w/o
+> looking at that package).
+
+There is no buidrequires related to perl-Forge in this spec and there is
+no error output (perl-Forge is the name of this package).
+
+Urpmi wrongly assumed the spec file as binary package:
+
+Example:
+
+QUOTE:
+    %define name toto
+    %define version 1
+    %define release %mkrel 1
+
+    Summary: test
+    Name: %{name}
+    Version: %{version}
+    Release: %{release}
+    License: GPL
+    Group: test
+    BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot
+
+    %description
+    test
+
+    %files
+    %defattr(-,root,root)
+END QUOTE
+
+$ urpmi toto.spec
+error: toto-1-1.mga3.x86_64: install failed
+
+Now if replace the name by prboom (installed):
+
+A requested package cannot be installed:
+prboom-1-1.mga3.x86_64 (in order to keep prboom-2.5.0-10.mga3.x86_64)
+
+So clearly the specfile is treat as a binary rpm and the error reported
+incorrectly.
+
+Regards.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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