[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

Tue Mar 6 12:34:20 CET 2012

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:25, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> '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.
+
+And as shown in the fedora link, they use BuildRequires:
+php-channel(pear.horde.org) to get it from another package
+