On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > in perl, circular dependencies are heavily used. [...] > But this seems to bring problems, see the comments in > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/testing/F7/perl-5.8.8-22.fc7 > > Is this just a bug in yum, or is there a problem on my side? I would argue it is a bug in yum indeed - it says "foo is not available" for various foos that clearly actually _are_ available. But IIRC similar cases (monolithic package split to several subpackages) have been successfully worked around in the past by adding "Obsoletes: $monolithic_package < $first_nonmonolithic_package_evr" to all those new subpackages. Based on the perl package changelog, I suppose for this case it could be something like "Obsoletes: perl-devel < 4:5.8.8-20" for subpackages that perl-devel used to pull in but no longer does. Having said that, in case you're planning to push the all-the-way split perl package to F-7 as an update: FWIW in my opinion it is a pretty intrusive one to be pushed at this point. I think not even all packages in Rawhide have been verified to build and work properly with the split done all the way and transition-time dependencies dropped. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
