[Pacemaker] pacemaker-mgmt-client: broken dependency in CentOS 5 repo

[Yan Gao]

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 15:00 +0800, Yan Gao wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Florian Haas <florian at linbit.com> wrote:
> > > Andrew,
> > >
> > > this is probably of minor importance, but the CentOS 5 repo hosted on
> > > download.opensuse.org seems to have a dependency issue pertaining to the
> > >  pacemaker-mgmt-client package:
> > >
> > > yum install pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> > > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> > >  * base: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de
> > >  * updates: ftp.hosteurope.de
> > >  * addons: ftp.hosteurope.de
> > >  * extras: ftp.hosteurope.de
> > > Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Extras
> > > Finished
> > > Setting up Install Process
> > > Parsing package install arguments
> > > Resolving Dependencies
> > > --> Running transaction check
> > > ---> Package pacemaker-mgmt-client.x86_64 0:1.99.1-2.1 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-lxml for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > --> Processing Dependency: PyXML for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > --> Processing Dependency: pygtk2 for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > ---> Package pacemaker-mgmt-client.i386 0:1.99.1-2.1 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-lxml for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > --> Running transaction check
> > > ---> Package pacemaker-mgmt-client.x86_64 0:1.99.1-2.1 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-lxml for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > ---> Package pacemaker-mgmt-client.i386 0:1.99.1-2.1 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-lxml for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > ---> Package pygtk2.x86_64 0:2.10.1-12.el5 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-numeric for package: pygtk2
> > > --> Processing Dependency: pycairo for package: pygtk2
> > > ---> Package PyXML.x86_64 0:0.8.4-4 set to be updated
> > > --> Running transaction check
> > > ---> Package python-numeric.x86_64 0:23.7-2.2.2 set to be updated
> > > ---> Package pycairo.x86_64 0:1.2.0-1.1 set to be updated
> > > ---> Package pacemaker-mgmt-client.x86_64 0:1.99.1-2.1 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-lxml for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > ---> Package pacemaker-mgmt-client.i386 0:1.99.1-2.1 set to be updated
> > > --> Processing Dependency: python-lxml for package: pacemaker-mgmt-client
> > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > > pacemaker-mgmt-client-1.99.1-2.1.i386 from server_ha-clustering has
> > > depsolving problems
> > >  --> Missing Dependency: python-lxml is needed by package
> > > pacemaker-mgmt-client-1.99.1-2.1.i386 (server_ha-clustering)
> > > pacemaker-mgmt-client-1.99.1-2.1.x86_64 from server_ha-clustering has
> > > depsolving problems
> > >  --> Missing Dependency: python-lxml is needed by package
> > > pacemaker-mgmt-client-1.99.1-2.1.x86_64 (server_ha-clustering)
> > > Error: Missing Dependency: python-lxml is needed by package
> > > pacemaker-mgmt-client-1.99.1-2.1.x86_64 (server_ha-clustering)
> > > Error: Missing Dependency: python-lxml is needed by package
> > > pacemaker-mgmt-client-1.99.1-2.1.i386 (server_ha-clustering)
> > >
> > > I don't know if python-lxml is "supposed" to be included in CentOS 5,
> > > but if it isn't, you might want to toss it into the repo along with your
> > > own packages. 
> I wasn't intending to put python-lxml into the repository because I
> thought that would mess the _HA_ repo . Moreover most distributions
> include this package. Even for CentOS, people could find it somewhere I
> thought...
> 
> > Or remove/correct the dependency (if that's possible).
> python-lxml is required by GUI now. Maybe I should try to make it
> optional in codes, 
Done:
http://hg.clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/pygui/rev/382c4f4f14a3

> and remove the dependency in rpm for some
> distributions. 
I'll do that for next building

> Although that would make a different experience  without
> python-lxml. 
> 
-- 
Regards,
Yan Gao
China R&D Software Engineer
ygao at novell.com

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