[Mageia-dev] Newly added requires not getting satisfied. Bug 2097

Sat Aug 6 16:15:40 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 5 août 2011 22:33:59, Stew Benedict a écrit :
+> On 08/05/2011 04:13 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+> > On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:55:37 -0400, nicolas vigier
+> > 
+> > <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
+> >> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, David W. Hodgins wrote:
+> >>> One user has reported in the usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mageia,
+> >>> that the update for kipi-plugins is failing with
+> >>> kipi-plugins-expoblending-1.9.0-3.1.mga1.x86_64 (due to unsatisfied
+> >>> hugin
+> >> 
+> >> No problem installing this package for me. Do you have the full error
+> >> message ?
+> > 
+> > Just the above.  I'll try to get more info from the user.
+> > 
+> >>> The purpose of the update was to add a requires on hugin.
+> >>> When I was qa testing the update, I used urpmi to test that the install
+> >>> picked up hugin.
+> >>> Does mgaapplet only allow requires from the updates respository?
+> >> 
+> >> No.
+> > 
+> > Thanks, I was getting a little worried about that.
+> 
+> The update tool doesn't pickup requires from core for an update package.
+> Bug was already opened on an earlier update with the same issue (nothing
+> done to fix it yet)
+> 
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
+> 
+> Update is still blocked here on a machine if I only use the GUI tools
+> (urpmi of course handles it ok)
+
+See also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 which is the technical 
+description of the same problem.
+
+By the way, it would be great if there could be a fix quickly, updates are 
+failing for some time now, which is really not good for the quality feeling of 
+Mageia 1.
+
+Samuel
+