[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

Tue Mar 6 15:11:48 CET 2012

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 14:03, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+
+After some more fixing (%post was testing if $1 is 0 which can never
+happen in a post, it is 1 for install and >= 2 for updates),
+php-pear-Horde_Itip-1.0.7-1.mga2 was uploaded successfully.
+