FS#16205 - AIF package dependencies

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Roman Widmann (archme) - Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 11:43 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Tuesday, 09 March 2010, 22:05 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.08
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

2 things i noticed during trying to use AIF with automatic procedure.

1. coreutils (/usr/bin/tac) and grub are requiered
perhaps these could be added as dependencies

2. SYNC_URL='ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686'
must have the single quotes in automatic config
otherwise the $repo will become empty.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Tuesday, 09 March 2010, 22:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 12:08 GMT
1) are you sure we need grub in the live environment? can you demonstrate it with a quote from the code?
afaik we only need grub on the installed system (we do stuff like `$var_TARGET_DIR/sbin/grub`)
the dependency on tac (coreutils) is correct, but it's from the base correct, and AFAIK it's an arch policy to assume base packages are always installed (feel free to correct me here)

2) I couldn't find a mention of 'ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686' anywhere in the source code.
Comment by Roman Widmann (archme) - Thursday, 12 November 2009, 08:59 GMT
1) I did not use official install iso for the installation.
I used archlinux-2009.08-1-archboot.iso, as i wanted to install through PXE.
To make the automatic procedure run successfull, i had to install coreutils and diffutils first.
Also grub seems to be a dependency for the live environment.
Take a look at core/procedures/automatic line 136:
grub-install $var_GRUB_DEVICE --root-directory=/mnt

2) I did not mean the exact string 'ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686'
What i meant is that in the automatic-config you MUST put the mirror-url in single quotes
eg.: SYNC_URL='ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686'
If you dont, the $repo variable will have no value
This is different to the sytax in mirrorlist, where you dont need quotes
Comment by Roman Widmann (archme) - Thursday, 12 November 2009, 10:24 GMT
1) I did not use official install iso for the installation.
I used archlinux-2009.08-1-archboot.iso, as i wanted to install through PXE.
To make the automatic procedure run successfull, i had to install coreutils and diffutils first.
Also grub seems to be a dependency for the live environment.
Take a look at core/procedures/automatic line 136:
grub-install $var_GRUB_DEVICE --root-directory=/mnt

2) I did not mean the exact string 'ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686'
What i meant is that in the automatic-config you MUST put the mirror-url in single quotes
eg.: SYNC_URL='ftp://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686'
If you dont, the $repo variable will have no value
This is different to the sytax in mirrorlist, where you dont need quotes
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 26 November 2009, 21:06 GMT
1) good point. i'm not sure what the policy is exactly. i asked on the ML. http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-November/000790.html
2) also good point. http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=ab74b9320f9a42cdce342f082b99c470869ca890
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Tuesday, 09 March 2010, 22:04 GMT
package now also has more dependencies.
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/aif/

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