Hi for those who were packagers at Mandriva ( or PLF ), we used to have a website showing result of various check, called youri-check : http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/
Pascal completed the installation of our own instance of youri on http://check.mageia.org/ yesterday. For now, that's still a work in progress, and we do not have everything ready ( ie, lots of check are missing for now, we are aware of this ), but this should be against to find stuff to fix. There is 2 checks : - dependencies - missing The first one check if a package has missing dependencies either Requires or BuildRequires. Any packagers can fix such errors. The second check if a binary rpm is missing a source rpm. ( there is some false positive due to clever trick, like rpmlint-mageia-policy ) So that's likely one for admins for now. But do not blindly import missing rpms, something, the requires is wrong : So for example, if you see : task-lamp task-lamp-python apache-mod_python not found Check that apache-mod_python is still needed ( in this case, the software was dropped upstream since a few years ( and that's a shame IMHO )). On the other hand, errors like the one of backuppc may be a error in the check. The page is regenerated every 6h, people curious can look on http://svnweb.mageia.org/adm/puppet/modules/youri-check/ We can blacklist false positives, so do not hesitate to ask if you see something wrong. We will enable the rest of the check later ( ie check for updates, check for age, etc ). -- Michael Scherer
