[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

Tue Mar 6 14:52:50 CET 2012

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:34, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+
+Actually we had php-pear-channel-horde which installed the xml file
+but still connected to internet instead of using it, I think I fixed
+it
+