[Server-devel] Testing rpm dependencies of XSCE ansible version using a virtual package

[Miguel González]

To test hidden dependencies in current ansible implementation I've built a
**virtual package called xsce-virtual.rpm** [1] that includes a `Provides`
rule:

```
Provides: xs-config xs-tools
```

Installing it in the target machine, it is possible to install XSCE from
source with ansible assuring that actual xs-config and xs-tools packages
won't be installed.

```
$ sudo yum localinstall xsce-virtual-0.0-1479_g3ad13d3.noarch.rpm
[...]
Complete!
$ yum whatprovides xs-config xs-tools
xsce-virtual-0.0-1479_g3ad13d3.noarch : XSCE virtual package to isolate
xs-config and xs-tool dependencies
Repo        : @/xsce-virtual-0.0-1479_g3ad13d3.noarch
Matched from:
Provides    : xs-config

xsce-virtual-0.0-1479_g3ad13d3.noarch : XSCE virtual package to isolate
xs-config and xs-tool dependencies
Repo        : @/xsce-virtual-0.0-1479_g3ad13d3.noarch
Matched from:
Provides    : xs-tools
$ sudo yum install -y git ansible
$ git clone https://github.com/XSCE/xsce
$ cd xsce/
$ sudo ./runansible
[...]
$ yum list installed|grep ^xs
xs-rsync.noarch                     0.6.12.gabc8f49-1.fc17
 @xs-extra
xsce-virtual.noarch                 0.0-1479_g3ad13d3
@/xsce-virtual-0.0-1479_g3ad13d3.noarch
$
```

----

Related with this, I cleaned dxs.spec from DXS branch and sent a pull
request [2]:
- include xsce.yml
- substitute DXS for XSCE in paths and texts
- add `Provides: ` directive for xs-config and xs-tools.

To test, please install the rpm in the target machine and run ansible:

```
sudo yum localinstall xsce-server-0.0-1480_gb42a1de.noarch.rpm
sudo runansible
```

See https://sugardextrose.org/issues/4827 for the rpm packages.

Of course, packages can be built using ``rpmbuild -bb xsce-server.spec``.



1: https://gist.github.com/migonzalvar/7238367

2: https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/pull/22

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Miguel González
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