[OM Cooker] urpmi tries to install packages not in repository.
Ben Bullard
benbullard79 at cox.net
Fri Apr 21 11:37:59 EDT 2017
+1
Ben Bullard
ben79
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OpenMandriva-QA Team
On 04/21/2017 02:46 AM, rugyada wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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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