[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

Tue Mar 6 15:03:25 CET 2012

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 06:52:50 AM Pascal Terjan wrote:
+> 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
+
+I will check it tonight. Only thw horde packages need it, the other pear 
+packages don't have a channel install requires.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
+