[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:34, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Actually we had php-pear-channel-horde which installed the xml file
but still connected to internet instead of using it, I think I fixed
it