[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

[Pascal Terjan]

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