[Mageia-dev] BS broken ?

[Pascal Terjan]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 14:03, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 06:52:50 AM Pascal Terjan wrote:
>> 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
>
> I will check it tonight. Only thw horde packages need it, the other pear
> packages don't have a channel install requires.

After some more fixing (%post was testing if $1 is 0 which can never
happen in a post, it is 1 for install and >= 2 for updates),
php-pear-Horde_Itip-1.0.7-1.mga2 was uploaded successfully.