On Fri, Aug 08, Lorenzo Villani wrote:

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Michael Andres wrote:

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target/rpm/RpmDb.cc

void RpmDb::removePackage( Package::constPtr package, unsigned flags ) { return removePackage( package->name() + "-" + package->edition().asString() + "." + package->arch().asString(), flags ); } Yes, I cam to the same function after digging for 1/2 Hour in both zypper and libzypp source code (heh, I have no experience with their codebase)

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

Right, I'm making a patch for fedora which removes the epoch part.

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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?

AFAIK, the purpose of the Epoch number is to allow solvers to determine the latest version of a package in such cases, example: openafs-1.4.1rc9-rhel4.4 openafs-1.4.1-rhel4.5 The solution in this case is to add an Epoch: 1 to the SPEC file. Of course a better solution is to add an Obsoletes tag but many, many packages in Fedora use Epoch for "historical" reasons.

I see. The bug is fixed in SVN for 11.0 and TRUNK. http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/trunk/libzypp http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/branches/SuSE-Linux-11_0-Branch/libzypp -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres YaST Development ma@novell.com SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org

Sorry if I harass you with this question. I guess that package removal is done by calling 'rpm -e' directly, Am I wrong? Why not move that code at rpmlib level? Regards -- Lorenzo Villani Blog: http://blog.binaryhelix.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:54:46AM +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:

D??a Tuesday 26 August 2008 18:35:46 Lorenzo Villani ste napísal:

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Sorry if I harass you with this question. I guess that package removal is done by calling 'rpm -e' directly, Am I wrong? Why not move that code at rpmlib level?

Do you mean using librpm instead of invoking rpm?

To bad the query options don't work with '-e', i.e.: rpm -e -f /bin/bash rpm -e --querybynumber 553 M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org