https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=297704 Summary: zypper reports dependency problem with Factory Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 6 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: kkaempf@novell.com ReportedBy: poeml@novell.com QAContact: kkaempf@novell.com Found By: --- On Friday night, I was trying to update a machine to Factory. The last Factory update was from Tue 24 Jul 2007, and so I was trying to update to Fri 03 Aug 2007 level. Installation source was:

root@cherry ~ # zypper sl # | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name | URI --+---------+---------+--------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Yes | Yes | rpm-md | factory | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/

The problem I encountered is the following choice that zypper offers:

Problem: Can't satisfy requirement /sbin/ldconfig for fontconfig-2.4.2-33.ppc[factory]

fontconfig-2.4.2-33.ppc[factory] ================================

fontconfig-2.4.2-33.ppc[factory] will be installed by the user. fontconfig-2.4.2-33.ppc[factory] is needed by (libfontconfig.so.1) glibc-2.6-11.ppc provides /sbin/ldconfig, but is scheduled to be uninstalled. fontconfig-2.4.2-33.ppc[factory] depends on glibc

Solution 1: do not install fontconfig do not install fontconfig-2.4.2-33.ppc[factory] Solution 2: Ignore this requirement just here Solution 3: Ignore this requirement generally number, (r)etry or (c)ancel>

None of the choices seem to make sense to me. Indeed, uninstalling glibc sounds scary. zypper doesn't seem to find anything which provides /sbin/ldconfig, right? I cancelled the update at this point. Also, zypper shows a lot of lines like this, which also seem to indicate that something is seriously wrong:

Problem: Can't satisfy requirement /bin/sh for zypper-0.8.5-4.ppc

An update works fine with yum. (Well, "fine" is relative, yum has its own problem at the moment, e.g. bug 297361. But other than that, yum doesn't report any problem with requirements or dependencies.) I am attaching the full console log and zypper.log. Please note that the first part of the log shows a segfault which I worked around by updating zypper and libzypp first (with yum, which has the same installation sources configured). (Since zypper seemed to be outdated I didn't bother looking for debuginfos, and indeed the zypper update cured the segfault.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.