[Mageia-dev] Newly added requires not getting satisfied. Bug 2097

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le vendredi 5 août 2011 22:33:59, Stew Benedict a écrit :
> On 08/05/2011 04:13 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> > On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:55:37 -0400, nicolas vigier
> > 
> > <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> >>> One user has reported in the usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mageia,
> >>> that the update for kipi-plugins is failing with
> >>> kipi-plugins-expoblending-1.9.0-3.1.mga1.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied
> >>> hugin
> >> 
> >> No problem installing this package for me. Do you have the full error
> >> message ?
> > 
> > Just the above.  I'll try to get more info from the user.
> > 
> >>> The purpose of the update was to add a requires on hugin.
> >>> When I was qa testing the update, I used urpmi to test that the install
> >>> picked up hugin.
> >>> Does mgaapplet only allow requires from the updates respository?
> >> 
> >> No.
> > 
> > Thanks, I was getting a little worried about that.
> 
> The update tool doesn't pickup requires from core for an update package.
> Bug was already opened on an earlier update with the same issue (nothing
> done to fix it yet)
> 
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
> 
> Update is still blocked here on a machine if I only use the GUI tools
> (urpmi of course handles it ok)

See also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 which is the technical 
description of the same problem.

By the way, it would be great if there could be a fix quickly, updates are 
failing for some time now, which is really not good for the quality feeling of 
Mageia 1.

Samuel