-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Panu Matilainen wrote: *snip* >> >> I strongly suspect the problem lies with RPM always comparing an >> arch-specific package as "newer" than a noarch package, but I'm not >> certain. > > RPM will happily upgrade such a package, it's yum-specific behavior to > refuse to change package arch. Set exactarch=0 in yum.conf and it'll > upgrade that. The other way around this is renaming the package to > something else. > The behavior exists both with and without exactarch. >> Note that these problems *appear* to have been fixed in rawhide as the >> extras development repository does not contain the offending packages. >> >> Additionally, trying to track down any potential problem packages is >> difficult as repoquery will not check versioned requires and insists >> that python-0:2.4.2-3.2.1.i386 provides "python < 2.4", which it most >> assuredly does not. > > Huh, you're saying 'repoquery --provides python' on FC5 says "python < > 2.4"? I have hard time figuring out how it would come up with such a > thing if it doesn't exist in the package but... Please show me the exact > command to reproduce that so I can check what the heck is going on. > > Oh and there are such gems around, eg perl has "Provides: perl <= > 4:5.8.8" which looks pretty dubious to me. > > - Panu - Sorry, I mis-typed. Repoquery, when asked --requires --resolve on the offending packages will list the python package as satisfying the requirements, which it doesn't. Similarly, both rpm and repoquery don't deal with versioned '--whatrequires' requests (such as --whatrequires 'python < 2.4'). I'm not sure if this is a big deal or not, but I have encountered two packages exhibiting this problem so far and was trying find any more potential problem packages and having minimal luck. I wouldn't be surprised if python-reportlab.i386 is the last remaining problem package, but the yum-or-rpm behavior that ignores newer noarch packages still seems like a bug to me. - -- Shahms E. King <shahms@xxxxxxxxxx> Multnomah ESD Public Key: http://shahms.mesd.k12.or.us/~sking/shahms.asc Fingerprint: 1612 054B CE92 8770 F1EA AB1B FEAB 3636 45B2 D75B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEcySJ/qs2NkWy11sRAk+IAJ9UzbCt0aZvthxc/26d6qNmJ3BRSACeOjEd Fy/zGccX80Oc/foiuV8E3LY= =Fdof -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
