http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496 zhu rensheng changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rszhu@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |sndirsch@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496#c2 --- Comment #2 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-09-28 03:38:46 MDT --- And libpciaccess0-devel requires libpciaccess0. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496#c4 --- Comment #4 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-09-28 08:31:17 MDT --- I have no idea what you are complaining about!?! Having libpciaccess0-7.4-45.1.x86_64 installed only would be fine (runtime environment), having both packages installed is fine as well (runtime environment and .so file for linking applications). Having libpciaccess0-devel installed only would be an issue. But in that case zypper would complain about libpciaccess0 not being installed, since it's required by libpciaccess0-devel. It appears to me that you have no clue about packaging libraries. Bugzilla is definitely not the right place to learn this. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539496#c6 --- Comment #6 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-09-28 11:26:44 MDT --- I apologize for sounding rude and thus you felt insulted by my comments.

I did make a mistake regarding the packaging of the .so files - I did not look carefully enough at the architectures of the packages involved.

zypper has a bug where (for example) libpciaccess0 for x86_64 meets the dependency requirements for libpciaccess0-devel for i586 (perhaps this is a packaging error wherein the dependency is not specified completely).

This explains a lot. So zypper resolved the dep to libpciaccess0 from libpciaccess0-devel (i586) by installing the x86_64 package of libpciaccess0. Thus the dangling link although all deps appear to be resolved. This is at least surprising behaviour and causes confusions as we've seen. I can't tell you if it's a (known) bug in zypper. It might even be broken by design. :-( I've seen such an effect, just the other way round. 'zypper dup' proposed to update half of the packages from x86_86 to i586 since they weren't available due to currently broken builds on x86_64. Luckily I noticed this and didn't proceed. :-) In case you would like to discuss this suprising zypper behaviour I would recommend to open a seperate bugreport for that. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.