[Mageia-dev] Missing packages

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Thursday, July 21, 2011 01:39:45 am Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 21 July 2011 08:51, Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2011/7/21 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
> > 
> >> On 21 July 2011 05:50, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 08:21:40 pm Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> >> >> On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:55:28 am Anne nicolas wrote:
> >> >> > Hi there
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Usual mail on missing packages. Please have a look on that list to
> >> >> > decrease it: http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > This is important to clean this list. Please report on this thread
> >> >> > anything you do for it.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Cheers
> >> >> 
> >> >> I have several (The horde related) and it will take some time to get
> >> >> this
> >> >> all done. there are about 30 packages I need to redo and the names
> >> >> all cahnge to a php-pear-Horde_Cxxxx style
> >> >> then there is the perlapi-5.12.2 which comes from swish-e that
> >> >> doesn't build on a 32 bit system. I am working with upstream to get
> >> >> it fixed, but
> >> >> they take their time.
> >> >> But there is one package I have a problem I cannot explain and I
> >> >> would like
> >> >> some help:
> >> >> php-pear-channel-symfony
> >> >> I have build this package twice with, well at least the system says
> >> >> so (
> >> >> and I can install it locally), but it never makes it over to the
> >> >> mirrors.
> >> >> I checked the spelling, compared it with other channel packages,
> >> >> compared
> >> >> it to SUSE and all looks good.
> >> >> If someone find a little spare time... it would be appreciated
> >> > 
> >> > I found this:
> >> > php-pear-channel-symfony found in incorrect media core.x86_64 (allowed
> >> > core.i586)      error
> >> > 
> >> > Why did it go to core.x86_64 it's a noarch package
> >> > How do I move (or remove) this?
> >> > 
> >> > --
> >> > Thomas
> >> 
> >> noarch packages are copied to both i586 and x86_64 repos, so the error
> >> on http://check.mageia.org/dependencies.html doesn't make sense to me.
> >> 
> >> Another issue it php-pear-channel-symfony provides and obsoletes
> >> _itself_, this is wrong, IIUC. (I've submitted a new package fixing
> >> this issue).
> > 
> > IIRC, It's a known problem that if you obsolete noarch package it's only
> > removed from i586 repos.
> 
> That probably explains the issue; the new package is no available on both
> archs.
> 
> > --
> > Jani Välimaa

So how should noarch packages be replaced? I have a lot of horde-xxxx packages 
and they all need to be replaced with php-pear-Horde_Xxxxx packages.
Should I just use the <Obsoletes:> command and ask for the x64 packages to be 
removed manually?

-- 
Thomas