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

[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