Broken dependencies in EPEL - 2008-12-07

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0000, Fedora wrote:
>
> >     vpnc-0.4.0-2.el5.ppc  requires  Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
> >     vpnc-0.4.0-2.el5.ppc  requires  Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-i386-server-productivity-4. Please verify its path and try again
> >     vpnc-0.4.0-2.el5.ppc  requires  Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
> >     vpnc-0.4.0-2.el5.ppc  requires  Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-server-productivity-4. Please verify its path and try again
> >     vpnc-0.4.0-2.el5.ppc  requires  Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
> >     vpnc-0.4.0-2.el5.ppc  requires  Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-ppc-server-productivity-4. Please verify its path and try again
> >
>
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  Checking Dependencies
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  Repos looked at: 6
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  rhel-5-x86_64
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  fedora-epel-5-x86_64
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  rhel-x86_64-server-productivity-5
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  rhel-5-x86_64-vt
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  buildsys-5-x86_64
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  fedora-epel-testing-5-x86_64
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.i386  requires  Num Packages in Repos: 6521
>
>
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  Checking Dependencies
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  Repos looked at: 6
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  rhel-5-ppc
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  rhel-ppc-server-productivity-5
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  fedora-epel-5-ppc
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  rhel-5-ppc-vt
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  fedora-epel-testing-5-ppc
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  buildsys-5-ppc
> >     tcl-tktreectrl-2.2.8-1.el5.1.x86_64  requires  Num Packages in Repos: 4801
>
> Currently these people are members of the EPEL Steering Committee:
>
>     * Mike McGrath ( mmcgrath )
>     * Michael Stahnke ( stahnma )
>     * Kevin Fenzi ( nirik )
>     * Xavier Lamien ( SmootherFrOgZ )
>     * Andy Gospodarek ( Gospo )
>     * Jeff Sheltren ( Jeff_S )
>     * Karsten Wade ( quaid )
>     * Stephen J Smoogen ( smooge ) (Chair)
>
> Who of these people has the necessary privileges to shut off this thing,
> which is broken for many months? My reply from last week is unanswered.
> Do you think it's right to spam your packagers with crap in the reports
> just because you misconfigured repoclosure?
>


The epel steering committee is just that, its not an operations group.
Second.  You said "add -q" to what?

	-q  Mike