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

Olivier Thauvin nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org
Fri Jul 27 12:06:49 CEST 2012


* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> '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?

Extend perl to any perl package, including urpmi/draktools, add to this
all package linked over perl (vim, irssi, etc...).
One them is enough since the dependency match the exact perl version.

> 
> Col
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