getfullcomps errors

[James Olin Oden]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, mbox mbarsalou wrote:

> I ran the getfullcomps as described in the Wiki and I get back a few
> CRITICAL ERROR messages.  I realize that this means that those
> particular packages are missing, but this is the comps.xml file that
> comes with the CD set.
> 
> Why would it do that?
>
It will also give critical errors for packages that require the 
non-standard kernel (probably not the best name, but things like 
kernel-smp and kernel-bigmem being required by others).  The patch is 
trivial:

    152,153c152
    <                                 if (h['name'] == "glibc-debug" or
    <                                     h['name'].startswith("kernel-")):
    ---
    >                                 if (h['name'] == "glibc-debug"):

At least that is the patch  agaisnt the RH 9 version.  I asked about this
a while back, but got no response.

This may not be your problem, but I figured I would mention it just in 
case.

Cheers...james

P.S.  I would really like to know why this limitation is there.  Course
I probably should have bugzilla'd it, and let the developers sort it out 
whether its a NOFIX or patch gleefully accepted.