Bug 770357 - Enable updates repositories for Fedora
Summary: Enable updates repositories for Fedora
Status: NEW
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Product: openSUSE.org
Classification: openSUSE
Component: BuildService (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Adrian Schröter
QA Contact: Adrian Schröter
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Reported: 2012-07-08 23:54 UTC by Xiao-Long Chen
Modified: 2012-07-09 09:10 UTC (History)
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Description Xiao-Long Chen 2012-07-08 23:54:14 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11

Currently, the OBS uses the base Fedora repository for building packages. This is a problem for packages that need the updated packages. For example, one of my programs I'm packaging requires libzeitgeist 0.3.17, but the base Fedora 17 repository only contains 0.3.12. The updates repository has 0.3.18.

Right now, I'm working around the issue by uploading a copy of the sources in the updates repository.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upload package that requires newer version of package in updates repo of Fedora.
Actual Results:  
Build fails because the package cannot be found.

Expected Results:  
OBS should download the dependency from the update repo and install it to continue the building process.

This bug has been reported before for RHEL (752877), but that was closed due to a legal restriction. This should not be the case for Fedora.