[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4237] block denemo as it pulls in lilypond and texlive

Wed Apr 25 10:47:46 CEST 2012

On 24 April 2012 22:53, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+>> But as it is now, if I would specify texlive directly, urpmi will
+>> start unselecting various random packages thus breaking the livecd
+>> build...
+>> (it even nukes protected packages like basesystem(-minimal)...
+>>
+>> That is why we have to block the packages in the "beginning" of the
+>> dependency chain...
+>
+> Exactly, if a package selected by rpmsrate has a dependency that is not
+> available (for example "skipped"), this package is unselected as well as
+> a lot more packages selected by rpmsrate.
+>
+> This is likely a bug in the DrakX package selection code.
+>
+> Thierry, maybe you have some ideas about this issue?
+> Do you want logs to show the issue?
+
+yes.
+and testcase if possible.
+Can be draklive with a specific patch to set "$urpm::args::options{justdb} = 1;"
+for fast testing.
+
+> We would be very happy not to have to specify the leaves in the dep
+> chain if we can skip only one dependency.
+