[OM Cooker] urpmi tries to install packages not in repository.

rugyada rugyada at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 03:46:49 EDT 2017


Hello,
Thanks for everything Crisb.
I think this is a good enlightening piece of text we can use and
publish at needing. With your kind permission.



2017-04-21 8:44 GMT+02:00 Crispin Boylan <cris at beebgames.com>:
> i've fixed that one.  somehow the file had gone missing.
>
> The urpmi metadata is created when the packages are built and published to
> the repo.  sometimes this can go wrong, especially when the file is old -
> there may have been an abf bug at the time the package was created for
> example.  particularly on the contrib repo which isnt rebuilt often.
>
> you need to realise that the contrib repo is historically a set of packages
> which were 'unsupported'. meaning that users would contribute them but they
> wouldnt be worked on to the same level as a main repo package in terms of
> making sure they worked fine etc.  of course if people found problems with
> them they might raise a bug and it might get fixed, but mostly it would be
> the packager who fixed it (if they were still interested), and there would
> be no formal qa performed on them.  not all packages would be rebuilt every
> release, and non building packages would not prevent the release.
>
> the reasons for a package being in contrib:
>
> * obsolete software which some people may use (bits of gnome  1 for example
> are in here, because some old package still depend on them)
>
> * niche things which would bring too much burden to maintain in main distro
>
> * newer pieces of software which are not yet stable, change frequently and
> may need frequent rebuilds
>
> * just stuff people wanted to contribute
>
> historically things would move from main to contrib as they became less
> useful, and likewise they would move from contrib to main as they became
> more popular.
>
> of course in the old days there were more people working on the distro so
> this repo decay would not be so much of an issue.  there has never been
> enough people working on omv to extend to properly fixing everything in
> contrib.
>
>




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Cristina



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