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

Mon Jan 9 01:29:12 CET 2012

Op maandag 09 januari 2012 01:01:26 schreef Pascal Terjan:
+> 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
+
+hmm, maybe i've always used rpm -ivh file.src.rpm then...
+