[Mageia-dev] urpmi installing src.rpm defaults to --buildrequires

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op maandag 09 januari 2012 01:01:26 schreef Pascal Terjan:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 23:25, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> > Op zondag 08 januari 2012 23:26:38 schreef Pascal Terjan:
> >> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 22:12, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > i donno if it's me, but i noticed the following:
> >> > 
> >> > [alien at localhost manaplus]$ /usr/sbin/urpmi
> >> > /tmp/manaplus-1.1.5.1-4.mga1.src.rpm
> >> > please use --buildrequires or --install-src, defaulting to
> >> > --buildrequires
> >> > 
> >> > ...
> >> > 
> >> > i noticed something was wrong when i clicked on the .src.rpm file on
> >> > the file browser and chose install the src.rpm file...
> >> > 
> >> > I do believe it should default to --install-src ?
> >> 
> >> Maybe it should depend if you are root
> > 
> > the thing is that defaulting to --buildrequires is not intuitive, ok,
> > it's what you mostly use, but not what you expect if you're using urpmi.
> > 
> > imho if you wanted the buildrequires; you'd exactly do that.
> 
> I think urpmi used to always install buildrequires and have no option.
> The old behaviour remained as default.
> 
> > i imagine this also changes that in GUI and you're installing .src.rpm,
> > it should NOT ask for superuser credentials... because it's not needed
> > and definately not what you want.
> > 
> > is this behavior changed recently, or was it always like this?
> 
> It has always been like that as far as I remember

hmm, maybe i've always used rpm -ivh file.src.rpm then...