On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The mass rebuild has broken the dependencies of packages in rawhide, >> and I'm upset about it. >> >> For instance, fresh install General Desktop from DVD made just after >> the mass rebuild, then boot the new system and try to "yum install pungi". >> I see several errors such as: >> ----- >> Error: Package: glibc-2.13.90-2.i686 (fedora) >> Requires: glibc-common = 2.13.90-2 >> Installed: glibc-common-2.13.90-3.x86_64 (@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201102112219.x86_64) >> glibc-common = 2.13.90-3 >> Available: glibc-common-2.13.90-2.x86_64 (fedora) >> glibc-common = 2.13.90-2 >> ----- >> >> Take a good look at those dependencies [a fixed-width font helps me]: >> glibc-common-2.13.90-3.x86_64 installed >> glibc-common = 2.13.90-2 required >> glibc-common-2.13.90-2.x86_64 available >> >> Changing a mere build number from "-2" to "-3" breaks dependencies? >> That is a poor system. > > It's a subpackage and these are supposed to have release-grained > dependencies. The problem stems from the fact that the 32bit version is > looking to get installed, but the 64bit version is -3 and yum won't > downgrade from the -3 you have to the -2 in the repos. The > `--allow-downgrades' flag in yum (also may need a plugin, I forget) or > grabbing the correct version from koji should help. That issue tends to happen when a package that depends on a one of the packages in question has a broken dependency. The mass rebuild will take a little while to settle out, esp with the branch and having to submit packages as updates, so its likely it will be broken for a little while..... welcome to the joys of rawhide. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
