[Mageia-dev] Release blocker bugs

[Pascal Terjan]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 19:48, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>
>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Nicolas at 23/04/12 10:33 did gyre and gimble:
>> > Hi there
>> >
>> > We need a status on following release_blocker bugs. As a reminder we
>> > have some days left only until RC isos.
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > #5556    nor    rel    Linu    bugsquad at mageia.org    NEW    ---    Need
>> > to add rpm-helper
>> > Requres(post/preun) automatically to packages containing systemd units
>>
>> This is quite an important one for upgrades. I'm not sure I have the
>> relevant knowledge to do this, but will happily help once the rebuilds
>> come around. Can someone with more rpm-foo volunteer here?
>
> rpm allows to use a script to automatically add requires, but it looks
> like it's not possible to automatically add Requires(pre/preun) with a
> script.
>
> So we can use find-requires script to automatically add a require on
> rpm-helper for package containing systemd units. But in that case the
> package will be installed almost everywhere (I think everybody has at
> least one package containing systemd units installed) so it's more
> simple to add the require on rpm or rpm-mageia-setup.

A simple require does not help, the point is that it is needed in post.

> Or is there a lot of people uninstalling rpm-helper to save space while
> they are not installing/updating packages ?