On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:23:59PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:44:49 -0500, Bruno wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13:24 +0300, > > Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > > If I as a packager craft a package for Fedora, how can I check that > > > this package's contents aren't accidentially conflicting with another > > > package in Fedora? Is there some magic python script that would check > > > a package against a whole repo? > > > > There should also be checks run as a project over the whole set of > > packages. I know of at least two conflicts currently in rawhide (down > > from 3 assuming the new R packages got pushed out this morning) and > > I think there is a another one that if I find again I'll make sure is > > bugzilla'd. I have a lot of stuff installed, so I see more of these > > than most people, but I am guessing there are others that I don't see. > > There are more. Search bugzilla for "conflicts". I've had the filing of bz > tickets semi-automated till I lost the work-in-progress ticket tracking > script which I had stored on a non-backuped-machine. At least the > following conflicts appear to be new compared with my last log: > > R-Matrix conflicts with R-core > R-Matrix-devel conflict with R-core > astronomy-backgrounds conflicts with *-backgrounds* (in bugzilla) > globus-common-progs conflicts with grid-packaging-tools (in bugzilla) > > The script I use to check a set of repositories is old and unfinished: > http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/confcheck-remote-split2.py What is unfinished in this script? Can one use it against a repo like Bruno writes, or against a package and a repo like I suggested? There are a couple of useful scripts floating around, maybe they should get into one upstream source? Is perhaps yum-utils the proper place to submit them? > Working on such scripts and enhancing them is only fun if the filed > tickets are dealt with and are not ignored. I think that such a script could even become part of koji/bodhi automation and alert packagers/builders upon creating a buggy package. Sometimes even a package can evolve into conflicting with another if for example new exectuables are added. A koji check would do wonders to keep this off the repos. (Of course performance is an issue, so if the scripts takes a while it can's be chained in, yet, but it would be a start) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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