https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c1 kk zhang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kkzhang@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr |ovo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #1 from kk zhang 2012-03-06 08:35:16 UTC --- Hi,could you please look at this?I am not sure whether it is right to assign it to you .Feel free to reassign it whenever necessary.Thank you. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c3 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #3 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-06 13:15:58 UTC --- INVALID Simply because texlive-latex pre-requires texlive-bin-latex. If I would add a requirement texlive-latex to texlive-bin-latex then the question is how to break the loop in the dependency chain. And never install texlive-bin-latex as such is not a workaround as you should install texlive-latex which then requires texlive-bin-latex before installing. If you have a solution how to avoid a loop in the dependency chain by adding a require texlive-latex to texlive-bin-latex then you may reopen tihs bug ;) -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c5 Christopher Yeleighton changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX | --- Comment #5 from Christopher Yeleighton 2012-03-06 23:07:28 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)

INVALID

Simply because texlive-latex pre-requires texlive-bin-latex. If I would add a requirement texlive-latex to texlive-bin-latex then the question is how to break the loop in the dependency chain.

Such loops exist e.g. in KDE and they do not cause any problems. They only mean that you need to install all interdependent packages in one transaction.

And never install texlive-bin-latex as such is not a workaround as you should install texlive-latex which then requires texlive-bin-latex before installing.

This is the workaround.

If you have a solution how to avoid a loop in the dependency chain by adding a require texlive-latex to texlive-bin-latex then you may reopen tihs bug ;)

The package texlive-latex requires texlive-bin-latex, which seems to be a mistake because the LaTeX publishing system the package carries can be used with binary interpreters from various vendors. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c7 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #7 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-07 09:29:02 UTC --- I'll not fix that as it is not a bug IMHO. Those loops are real and will always be a problem if one package PreRequires an other package which Requires the former ... at least it flooded the log file at build and installation time and this is exactly not what I want. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c9 --- Comment #9 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-07 12:38:34 UTC --- I'm using e.g. Requires(prereq): texlive-bin = %{version}-%{release} also other special tags like Requires(post): %fillup_prereq %install_info_prereq %suseconfig_fonts_prereq Requires(postun): %install_info_prereq %suseconfig_fonts_prereq Requires(interp): /usr/bin/env /usr/bin/perl most of them are done by helper scripts I'm using for that. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c11 --- Comment #11 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-07 13:11:20 UTC --- The problem was/is that texlive-latex is an noarch package and texlive-bin is e.g. i586 and as rpm spec files only allows to use BuildArch: noarch I've choosen this way to be able to use *one* spec file to build the arch as well as the noarch. And to make sure that the configurations scripts in the spec file will find the required binaries at installation time I've used this way. Before this two spec files had been required to build the arch and noarch packages both building the binaries to be able to install them and dump the noarch format files. This had cost twice build time and be aware that every change of texlive or any dependency has caused a rebuild of the arch and noarch packages. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c13 --- Comment #13 from Christopher Yeleighton 2012-03-07 13:17:51 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11)

The problem was/is that texlive-latex is an noarch package and texlive-bin is e.g. i586 and as rpm spec files only allows to use

BuildArch: noarch

I've choosen this way to be able to use *one* spec file to build the arch as well as the noarch. And to make sure that the configurations scripts in the spec file will find the required binaries at installation time I've used this way.

That would be Requires(pre), not Prereq. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c15 --- Comment #15 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-07 14:11:39 UTC --- For documentation other than source code I found this /usr/share/doc/packages/rpm/manual/tsort with [...] For completeness, here's the complete set of tokens that may be added to Requires: as in the example above: \verbatim "interp", RPMSENSE_INTERP "prereq", RPMSENSE_PREREQ "preun", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PREUN "pre", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PRE "postun", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_POSTUN "post", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_POST "rpmlib", RPMSENSE_RPMLIB "verify", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_VERIFY \endverbatim Ditto BuildRequires: \verbatim "prep", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PREP "build", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_BUILD "install", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_INSTALL "clean", RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_CLEAN \endverbatim but let's not go there (yet). For giggles, you can also do stuff like \verbatim Requires(pre,post): /bin/sh \endverbatim -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750042#c17 --- Comment #17 from Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-08 07:58:11 UTC --- Nevertheless it works like described in /usr/share/doc/packages/rpm/manual/tsort .. IMHO the documentation of maximum rpm is out of date -- 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.