Bug 4690

Summary:	genhdlist2 missing in the isos (was urpmi.addmedia for a type-file media fails due to lack of genhdlist2)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Juergen Harms <juergen.harms>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ennael1, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	urpmi	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Juergen Harms 2012-02-25 08:26:42 CET

Description of problem:

On a newly installed cauldron (beta 1 - but same problem already with alpha) urpmi.addmedia (type file medium) fails with the message

genhdlist2 failed on /tmp/RPMS

So does also urpmi.update. A requires genhdlist2 appears to miss in urpmi. There is a secondary problem: genhdlist2 is not on the install iso DVD and needs to be fetched from a repository - all urpmi functions should work on a newly installed system that has urpmi in the packagelist.

How reproducible:

always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir /tmp/RPMS ; cp some-package /tmp/RPMS
2. urpmi.addmedia temp_medium file://tmp/RPMS
3.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-26 12:17:08 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-26 15:37:57 CET

genhdlist2 is suggested by urpmi.
If you used --no-suggest at install time, you just have to install genhdlist2 again.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 2 Juergen Harms 2012-02-26 17:00:54 CET

> If you used --no-suggest at install time, you just have to install genhdlist2
> again.

I agree: "if", but I did not. Is it possible to verify an in-advertent use of "--no-suggest" by checking in /root/drakx/ddebug.log?

I checked in /root/drakx/ddebug.log: here are the 3 pairs of lines that refer to genhdlist2:
* requested aria2, genhdlist2, eject suggested by urpmi-6.44-1.mga2.noarch
* no packages match genhdlist2 (it is either in skip.list or already rejected)
* requested eject, aria2, genhdlist2 suggested by urpmi-6.44-1.mga2.noarch
* no packages match genhdlist2 (it is either in skip.list or already rejected)
* requested eject, aria2, genhdlist2 suggested by urpmi-6.44-1.mga2.noarch
* no packages match genhdlist2 (it is either in skip.list or already rejected)

So, the assumption of the missing require does not hold, but the problem is probably that genhdlist2 does not exist the install medium.

PS: I dont agree: uprmi.addmedia and urpmi.update media should always  as lwork as documented in the man-pages as long as the urpmi package has been installed.

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-26 17:42:41 CET

genhdlist2 is missing in the isos :/

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Component: RPM Packages => Release (media or process)
Resolution: WONTFIX => (none)
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquad
Summary: urpmi.addmedia for a type-file media fails due to lack of genhdlist2 => genhdlist2 missing in the isos (was urpmi.addmedia for a type-file media fails due to lack of genhdlist2)
Source RPM: urpmi-6.44-1.mga2 => (none)

Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-26 19:47:24 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-26 21:18:53 CET

Indeed, just checked Mageia-2-beta1-i586-DVD.idx

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 5 Anne Nicolas 2012-02-26 21:33:08 CET

Isos are built without any suggests. If genhdlist2 is a suggest it will not be added unless it's listed in rpmsrate or bcd configuration.

Comment 6 Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-26 21:57:47 CET

(In reply to comment #5)
> Isos are built without any suggests. If genhdlist2 is a suggest it will not be
> added unless it's listed in rpmsrate or bcd configuration.

Maybe all dev/packagers should know that to ovoid such thing ?

Comment 7 Juergen Harms 2012-02-26 23:01:33 CET

Is there a particular reason why genhdlist2 is only a suggest in urpmi?

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-28 13:02:09 CET

It's useless for 99.9% of our users.
However, given that it's small and it doesn't bring new requires, I think we could switch that suggests to a requires

Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
Assignee: ennael1 => bugsquad
Source RPM: (none) => urpmi

Comment 9 Anne Nicolas 2012-02-28 13:57:56 CET

If urpmi does not require it, why change our policy? No need really

CC: (none) => ennael1

Comment 10 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-28 15:06:12 CET

It doesn't need it by default (aka when using mga repo).

Previously, urpmi always required eject & genhdlist2.
I changed those 2 requires in suggests as they are rarely used when I killed many requires/suggest cycles that were bloated the install.

Indeed eject isn't needed when using cdrom media since udisks is used.
And genhdlist2 is only usefull for rare cases (when one manually put some packages in some directory, then run "urpmi.addmedia /that/directory")

I can make urpmi requires genhdlist2 again (it's only 22kb and do not require anything more).
I can do the same for eject.
Or I can alter rpmsrate to list eject in the NONINSTALL section and make installer select it when performing a DVD install (like it does for perl-Hal-Cdroms)

Comment 11 Juergen Harms 2012-02-28 20:33:12 CET

I see 3 arguments:

1. It takes 22k and is useless for 99.9% of our users. I understand the issue,  but the number of 9's is wrong: genhdlist is needed by everybody who maintains a local repository (and local repositories are set up first thing after an install, before you start downloading).

2. The strength of Mageia is that it is attractive both to the 99.9% and to the 0.1% of the users. 100% - 0.1 would be << 99.9% !

3. The functions of urpmi.addmedia and urpmi.update are clearly defined - no particular conditions for type-file media. Without genhdlist, urpmi.addmedia and update.update would appear to be broken for type-file media - not what one expects from Mageia! (and this is a very different situation from that of eject)

Comment 12 Thierry Vignaud 2012-02-29 19:30:38 CET

Just fixed in urpmi

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 13 Juergen Harms 2012-03-01 09:18:36 CET

Thank you