[Mageia-dev] My feeeling about the rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) dependency

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 26/07/12 13:05 did gyre and gimble:
> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 26/07/12 08:05 did gyre and gimble:
>> I'm also not sure where the circular dep is (I can't see why filesystem
>> has to be upgraded to install the newer rpm: but I'll have to do some
>> tests next week in a VM to see if it comes to light).
> 
> The circular dep is easy to understand:
> 
> rpm is linked over perl => urpmi rpm pull new perl
> perl have file in /usr/lib => require new filesystem 

How does a file in /usr/lib in perl end up requiring the new filesystem
package? I don't see any Requires(pre): filesystem > 2.1.9-18 in the
perl spec. Is there some kind of special handling of "filesystem" somewhere?

Col


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