[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

Tue Mar 6 12:25:14 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 06/03/12 02:33 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Sunday, March 04, 2012 11:42:49 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> 04.03.2012 20:16, Thomas Spuhler skrev:
+>>> The last successful build went through Feb. 10, 2012. I haven't upgraded
+>>> and built any after that date until last weekend when they all failed to
+>>> build. I would have to change 80+ packages that are now using the pear
+>>> type spec. I don't have the bandwidth to do that.
+>>>
+>>> The message I get is this:
+>>>
+>>> Unknown channel "pear.horde.org"
+>>> Parsing of package.xml from file "/var/tmp/pearwYoowh/package.xml" failed
+>>> Cannot initialize '/home/iurt/rpm/SOURCES/Horde_Itip-1.0.7.tgz', invalid
+>>> or missing package file
+>>> Package "/home/iurt/rpm/SOURCES/Horde_Itip-1.0.7.tgz" is not valid
+>>> install failed.
+>>
+>> Well, you better start fixing the packages...
+>>
+>> Maybe you can download & fix it in the specs only to save bw....
+>>
+>> Anything building on BS must build with only official mageia repos...
+>>
+>>
+>> Otherwise we wont know what ends up in the packages.
+>>
+>> --
+>> Thomas
+> 
+> Thomas:
+> 
+> Many of the pear packages require to have the pear-cahnnel installed. Most of 
+> the horde require it. It's not installing a package.
+> We are not the only one, fedora folks do it too:
+> http://nb.fedorapeople.org/horde-reviews/php-horde-Horde-Http.spec
+> 
+> BuildRequires:  php-channel(pear.horde.org)
+> 
+> installing this package needs to add pear-channel-horde. If it doesn't the 
+> package doesn't build.
+> They do not even use a pearized specification.
+
+It's nothing to do with adding or not the channel. It's the fact that
+this operation requires network access. You need to patch the systems
+such that they do not require network access to add the channel.
+
+This is a rule that has been in place for a long time. I'm surprised
+it's only coming up as an issue now to be honest.
+
+The same thing happens when e.g. there are not XML schemas installed
+locally for man page building and similar. It's just a matter of
+installing the relevant package to provide local, cached versions.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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