Thank you for pointing this out.
Certainly at present, 'perl-Razor-Agent' requires 'netcat-traditional'. Can it be made to require either that OR 'netcat-openbsd'. Both packages look extremely similar, and both provide:
 /usr/bin/nc
 /usr/bin/netcat
openbsd: (the program is actually nc)
traditional: (the program is now netcat)

Assigning to Thierry who did the last update to 'perl-Razor-Agent', CC'ing Shlomi.

Source RPM: (none) => perl-Razor-Agent-2.850.0-25.mga7.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
CC: (none) => shlomif

nc is used in %post, changed made by Pascal.
See http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=r1151497
We could just not run razor-admin in post…
And let users rely on /usr/share/doc/perl-Razor-Agent/INSTALL instructions
WDYT?

Assignee: thierry.vignaud => pterjan

I had made that change as it was getting stuck forever when trying to install the package on a machine without network access but actually don't know what this package does and how it is used :)

A simpler solution could be echo > /dev/tcp/discovery.razor.cloudmark.com/80 && ...

This will fail immediately if the DNS doesn't work or the connection is refused, but may still block if the packets are silently dropped...

Maybe something like:

( echo > /dev/tcp/discovery.razor.cloudmark.com/80 ) & checkpid=$!
( sleep 5 && kill $pid ) & alarmpid=$!
if wait $checkpid 2>/dev/null; then
    # No error and no timeout, there is networking
    kill $alarmpid
    wait $alarmpid

    %{_bindir}/razor-admin -d -create -home=%{_sysconfdir}/razor
else
    # Network not working
    # Cleanup in case this was a fast failure
    kill $alarmpid
    wait $alarmpid

    echo "You might want to run \"%{_bindir}/razor-admin -d -create -home=%{_sysconfdir}/razor\" when your network works"
fi

Mageia 7 is EOL since July 1st 2021.
There will not have any further bugfix for this release.

You are encouraged to upgrade to Mageia 8 as soon as possible.

@reporter, if this bug still apply with Mageia 8, please let us know it.

@packager, if you work on the Mageia 7 version of your package, please check the Mageia 8 package if issue is also present. In this case, please fix the Mageia 8 version instead.

This bug report will be closed OLD if there is no further notice within 1st September 2021.

Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved,

Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly.

This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which  support ended on June 30th 2021.

Thanks,
Marja

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