Bug 387731

Summary: cobbler has a broken requirement on syslinux
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Component: cobblerAssignee: Michael DeHaan <mdehaan>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Christopher Aillon 2007-11-16 22:03:29 UTC
The cobbler package should require syslinux but it doesn't.  The cobbler spec
file says:

%ifarch i386 i686 x86_64
Requires: syslinux
%endif

But this never evaluates to true because the package is noarch.


[root@mithrandir ~]# rpm -qp --requires cobbler-0.6.4-2.fc7.noarch.rpm 
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/bin/sh  
/sbin/chkconfig  
/sbin/chkconfig  
/sbin/service  
/usr/bin/env  
/usr/bin/python  
config(cobbler) = 0.6.4-2.fc7
createrepo  
httpd  
mod_python  
python >= 2.3
python(abi) = 2.5
python-cheetah  
python-devel  
rhpl  
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
tftp-server

Comment 1 Michael DeHaan 2007-11-16 22:21:50 UTC
Correct. 

I've removed it from the specfile (upstream).  We actually don't want to require
syslinux anyway, because cobbler is useful even in non-PXE configurations.

Thanks!



Comment 2 Michael DeHaan 2007-11-16 22:23:53 UTC
FYI, regarding not requiring syslinux.  Ideally it would be nice to require it
where it was available to suck it down automatically in yum, but apparently
that's not possible.  That's ok.

We do mention the detected absence of syslinux during 'cobbler check'.  This is
because one might want to install cobbler on ppc/ia64 for serving koan (I don't
know why, but we need not exclude it) ... and we don't have the package
available there.