Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (31 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:38:49PM +0800, Chen, Zhang Z wrote:
> > 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.
> Found the root cause: zypper expects a sourcerpm tag in binary packages.

Yes, if a package doesn't contain a "sourcerpm" tag, it's a source
package.
So your mtf-0.0.1-1.i586.rpm is really "mtf-0.0.1-1.src.rpm"?

Zypper should be able to install src.rpm packages, please open
a bug against it.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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