On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> I went looking for sources for lsbpkgchk to fix the
>> issues that have been seen.
>>
>> Alas, bazaar on Fedora is a rather complicated and
>> complex update, involving EPEL, and python, and yum
>> and more. I wasted several hours trying before giving
>> up in disgust.
>
> well, I dunno, if you have Fedora you have yum, and
> to me saying
>
> # yum install bzr bzrtools
>
> doesn't seem very complicated or time-consuming (bzrtools
> is optional and could be left out).
>

Yah, I'm well aware of the yum! adverts everywhere. Its
not like I'm not an expert in the field ;-)

bzr has moved to EPEL. which uses python-2.4, not
python-2.5. And everything starts to get more and more
b0rken from there ...

> After that:
>
> $ bzr branch http://bzr.linux-foundation.org/lsb/devel/misc-test
>
> misc-test contains pkgchk as well as the bits it depends on.
>

Yup.

>
>> Does anyone have a URL to a nice simple lsbpkgchk tarball?
>
> Sure.
>
> http://ftp.linux-foundation.org/pub/lsb/test_suites
>
> you'll find the most recent released one at
>
> .../released-3.1.1/source/application/lsb-pkgchk-3.1.1.tar.gz
>
> I don't think tarballs are uploaded for snapshots and/or
> beta releases, but if you want something more recent
> than the one noted above, I'll make one for you.

Likely good enough. Thanks, expect patch(s) soonishly.

73 de Jeff