[Mageia-dev] urpmi installing src.rpm defaults to --buildrequires

Mon Jan 9 01:01:26 CET 2012

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 23:25, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+> Op zondag 08 januari 2012 23:26:38 schreef Pascal Terjan:
+>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 22:12, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>> > Hi,
+>> >
+>> > i donno if it's me, but i noticed the following:
+>> >
+>> > [alien at localhost manaplus]$ /usr/sbin/urpmi
+>> > /tmp/manaplus-1.1.5.1-4.mga1.src.rpm
+>> > please use --buildrequires or --install-src, defaulting to
+>> > --buildrequires
+>> >
+>> > ...
+>> >
+>> > i noticed something was wrong when i clicked on the .src.rpm file on the
+>> > file browser and chose install the src.rpm file...
+>> >
+>> > I do believe it should default to --install-src ?
+>>
+>> Maybe it should depend if you are root
+>
+> the thing is that defaulting to --buildrequires is not intuitive, ok, it's
+> what you mostly use, but not what you expect if you're using urpmi.
+>
+> imho if you wanted the buildrequires; you'd exactly do that.
+
+I think urpmi used to always install buildrequires and have no option.
+The old behaviour remained as default.
+
+> i imagine this also changes that in GUI and you're installing .src.rpm, it
+> should NOT ask for superuser credentials... because it's not needed and
+> definately not what you want.
+>
+> is this behavior changed recently, or was it always like this?
+
+It has always been like that as far as I remember
+