[Mageia-dev] Missing packages

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 13:04:54 CEST 2011


On 25 July 2011 07:06, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Probably yes. Note that the problem Jani talked about is pertinent to
x86_64 mirrors; on users' installations the Obsoletes should work as
expected, IIUC.

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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