[Mageia-dev] My feeeling about the rpmlib(X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir) dependency

Fri Jul 27 12:06:49 CEST 2012

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 26/07/12 13:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> > * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> >> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 26/07/12 08:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> >> I'm also not sure where the circular dep is (I can't see why filesystem
+> >> has to be upgraded to install the newer rpm: but I'll have to do some
+> >> tests next week in a VM to see if it comes to light).
+> > 
+> > The circular dep is easy to understand:
+> > 
+> > rpm is linked over perl => urpmi rpm pull new perl
+> > perl have file in /usr/lib => require new filesystem 
+> 
+> How does a file in /usr/lib in perl end up requiring the new filesystem
+> package? I don't see any Requires(pre): filesystem > 2.1.9-18 in the
+> perl spec. Is there some kind of special handling of "filesystem" somewhere?
+
+Extend perl to any perl package, including urpmi/draktools, add to this
+all package linked over perl (vim, irssi, etc...).
+One them is enough since the dependency match the exact perl version.
+
+> 
+> Col
+> 
+> 
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+> Colin Guthrie
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