[Mageia-dev] urpmi output missing some packages in progress (with chroot)

Sun Mar 31 20:41:13 CEST 2013

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 31/03/13 17:30 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 31 March 2013 18:22, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> Preparing...                     #####################################
+>>>     1/154: dash-static           ##########################warning:
+>>> group daemon does not exist - using root
+>>> warning: group mail does not exist - using root
+>>> ###########
+>>>     2/154: glibc                 #####################################
+>>>     3/154: lib64termcap2         #####################################
+>>>     4/154: perl-base             #####################################
+>>>     5/154: update-alternatives   #####################################
+>>>     6/154: bash                  #####################################
+>>>     7/154: lib64python2.7        #####################################
+>>>     -/154:                       #####################################
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> It seems the last one in that list is filesystem, but it has neither a
+>>> number, nor is it's name printed.
+>>>
+>>> I suspect this might related to the fact that they key is no present
+>>> which I'm attributing to the fact this is a blank chroot rather than an
+>>> actual signing problem.
+>>
+>> It means we failed to get this package fullname
+>> http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/rpm/urpmi/trunk/urpm/install.pm?revision=7595&view=markup#l121
+>>
+>> After debuging, callback_open got called one too much (it got called
+>> twice for first package
+>> which is actually filesystem), thus we bump the index one too much.
+>> Sadly the doble call came from librpm's rpmtsRun()
+>>
+>> Interestingly, the open & close calls are just before and after rpm prints:
+>> "warning: filesystem-2.1.9-19.mga3.x86_64: Header V3 RSA/SHA1
+>> Signature, key ID 80420f66: NOKEY
+> 
+> It happens b/c filesystem as a %pretrans
+> runTransScripts() calls rpmteProcess() which says:
+>     /* Dont bother opening for elements without pre/posttrans scripts */
+> 
+> But since we now have package with %pretrans due to /usr migration,
+> it goes further and calls rpmteOpen()->rpmteFDHeader()
+> which notifys us about a package opening in order to get its file descriptor.
+> 
+> Since we now have %pretrans scriptlets, I'll adapt urpmi in order not to
+> bump index out of actual transaction.
+
+Awesome :)
+
+Good debugging and interesting info above! Thanks as always Thierry :)
+
+Col
+
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