[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

[Thomas Spuhler]

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