Denis Leroy wrote : > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > Hi all... I must be missing something obvious or I have not noticed this > > behavior before... > > > > I'm in the process of building a bunch of packages for fedora 7 and > > tried installing them on a brand new i386 install through a meta package > > (ie: a package that only contains explicit dependencies using Requires: > > and installs all required packages as a side effect). There _are_ > > packages missing but yum happily goes ahead and installs the meta > > package and the dependencies it can find, and ignores the missing > > dependencies! Is this expected behavior?? > > > > A "package-cleanup --problems" does show the missing dependencies. How > > can yum install something which does not have its dependencies met? It > > seems to me like a very very basic bug in yum... > > A similar bug was filed against inkscape : > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242748 > > even though I can't reproduce the problem myself. It looks like > something funky is going on... Any ideas ? This is quite similar to a report I got about cinelerra from freshrpms not running. The user installed it with yum, but managed to get broken dependencies because of different ffmpeg packages from rpm.livna.org and freshrpms somehow... I wasn't able to reproduce either, but something weird does seem to be going on :-/ Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) - Linux kernel 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 Load : 0.42 0.42 0.37 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
