Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (31 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 09:19:06AM +0800, Chen, Zhang Z wrote:
> I wrote a Perl script that can compose simple rpm file byte by byte. The rpm 
> generated by the script can be installed by "rpm -i" but can't be installed 
> by zypper. Following is the error message:
>
> # zypper install mtf-0.0.1-1.i586.rpm 
> Loading repository data...
> Reading installed packages...
> 'mtf = 0:0.0.1-1' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
> No provider of 'mtf = 0:0.0.1-1' found.
> Resolving package dependencies...
>  
> Nothing to do.

My guess is that the package has a non-zero epoch and zypper
can't deal with it. Check the last line of:
    rpm -qp --provides mtf-0.0.1-1.i586.rpm

If the package has an epoch, please open a bug report against zypper.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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