[Mageia-dev] rpmlib(TildeInVersions)

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 12:12:44 CET 2012


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know what this means?
>>
>> rpmlib(TildeInVersions) <= 4.10.0-1 is needed by
>> lib64ftgl-devel-2.1.3-0.rc5.8.mga3.x86_64
>
> Recent versions of rpm support tilde in version numbers.
>
> And it seems lib64ftgl-devel-2.1.3-0.rc5.8.mga3.x86_64 use a ~ in a
> provide :
> pkgconfig(ftgl) = 2.1.3~rc5

Well this provide is not new :)

> So it requires a version of rpm that support tilde in version numbers.

It seems to require an old version(<= 4.10.0-1), which is strange

So the problem would be that this rpm is not installable with urpmi
--root if rpm outside of the chroot is too old (rpm 4.9.1.3 from
mageia 2).
I guess I will need to fix iurt to support --urpmi-root when rebuilding a media


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