[Mageia-dev] Mageia Beta 1 - 2012/02/21

[David Walser]

Pascal Terjan wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 04:14, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Pascal Terjan wrote:
>>> I think we should get rid of that files (which were temporary while
>>> bootstraping), they are not really helpful
>>> http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html gives more information
>>
>> Thanks Pascal, I was just going to say the same thing.
>>
>> Speaking of that page, why do a bunch of packages says automake1.4 is missing when we have
>> automake1.4?  Also, what do all of those messages about "found with incorrect range" mean?
> 
> It doesn't seem so
> [root at valstar ~]# urpmf --use-distrib
> /distrib/bootstrap/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/ --provides automake1.4
> [root at valstar ~]#
> 
> we have automake1.7 and automake providing 1.8 and 1.9, 1.4 seems to
> no longer be present

Was automake1.4 dropped for a reason?  Should we rebuild it?  Or do all of those packages need to be ported to automake1.7?

> For the incorrect range, an example:
> calligra-active	calligra-words found with incorrect range ==
> 12:2.4-0.beta7.1.mga2 (needed == 12:2.4-0.beta6.1.mga2)
> 
> calligra-active requires calligra-words = 12:2.4-0.beta6.1.mga2
> current version of calligra-words is 12:2.4-0.beta7.1.mga2 so
> calligra-active can not be installed
> 
> In this case I guess calligra-active was from the previous version of
> calligra, and the subpackage was removed but either not obsoleted of
> for some reason not removed from the mirror

Pascal, thank you for the explanation.