Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (84 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 08, Lorenzo Villani wrote:

> Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: i
> [...]
> Removal of (16168)guile-5:1.8.5-1.fc9.i386(@System) failed:
> Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: package
> guile-5:1.8.5-1.fc9.i386 is not installed
> [...]
>
> Packages with Epoch set are so common in Fedora that it is almost
> impossible to use zypper to remove such packages. I guess that zypper
> does not strip the '<Epoch number>:' part prior calling 'rpm -e' (or
> whatever it calls). I don't know if SuSE has a patched version of rpm
> or packages are not Epoch-versioned at all.
> My zypper version is 0.11.10 retrieved from openSuSE 11 branch.
> I'll see if I can make a patch to fix this.

Got it. This is to be fixed in libzypp. 

target/rpm/RpmDb.cc

void RpmDb::removePackage( Package::constPtr package, unsigned flags )
{
  return removePackage( package->name()
                        + "-" + package->edition().asString()
                        + "." + package->arch().asString(), flags );
}


I suppose rpm dislikes the epoch in edition().asString(): '5:1.8.5-1'

BTW: In case 2 versions 

        4:1.8.5-1
        5:1.8.5-1

were installed at the same time, would it be possible ot remove just one 
of them with rpm? 

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