[lsb-discuss] How to use the snapshot build of the LSB dist test?

Stew Benedict stewb at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jun 27 12:14:12 UTC 2012


On 06/26/2012 11:13 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Xibo Ning <xning at redhat.com 
> <mailto:xning at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Just as the subject. I enabled lsb-snapshot-x86_64 repo for my
>     test machine, and got the following errors:
>     Error: Package: lsb-xpdf-1.01-16.lsb5.x86_64 (lsb-snapshot)
>               Requires: lsb >= 5.0
>
>
>
> in order to get access to LSB 5 oriented features you need something 
> that provides lsb = 5.0
>
> in the pre-release phase ("snapshots") this is a chicken and egg 
> problem - since
> there is no released LSB 5.0, you can't expect distros to claim 
> conformance to 5.0,
> so you can't expect them to do the provide.  For working with devel 
> stuff, then, we have
> a small package called lsb-dummy which sets up the provide.
>
> Should be here: http://ftp.linuxbase.org/pub/lsb/lsbdev/unreleased/
> but actually don't seem to be....  Stew should know the status.
>
I don't think we've actually published lsb-dummy in some time (if at 
all), I've built my own copies as needed. I answered seperately as to 
using individual snapshot builds (which I think is what was really 
wanted here, not the whole set).


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