Re: [opensuse] Package Naming Causing Dependency Problems

On 12/10/2009 03:49 AM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 12/10/2009 at 11:09, "David C. Rankin" wrote: Listmates,

There are a couple of packages in factory that are causing dependency hell for 11.0. For some reason someone named many of the kde packages with very, very high minor numbers that take priority over newer packages. An example is:

/var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/python-kde4-4.3.80-11.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/kdelibs4-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/kdelibs4-core-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/libkde4-devel-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/libkdecore4-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/libkde4-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/kdelibs4-doc-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/libkdecore4-devel-4.3.80-197.1.i586.rpm /var/cache/zypp/packages/kde4/i586/kdebase4-runtime-4.3.80-166.2.i586.rpm

for KDE this perfectly sane I think. KDE 4.3.80 is beta1 of KDE 4.4 that is being prepared in Factory. don't add Factory if you don't know what to expect from it (which means especially breakage at the beginning of the release cycle).

There are other cases where I was not (yet) able to find an ample explanation: the ffmpeg packages in packman are called 0.5.<svn-rev>. Which is clearly wrong. The current release is 0.5.0, which will lead most likely to 0.5.1 or any other 0.5.x version. There a problem will arise (without introducing an epoch0.

for your case above, nothing weird or strange.... all perfectly under control.

Dominique

Thanks Anders, Dominique, I was missing the 4.4 beta part. And yes, you are correct, you don't want to mix them now. Ever since May/June when 4.3beta was in testing the recommended manner for getting 4.3 was to have factory enabled. Now I guess the KDE43 repo is the one to have enabled. But, what do we do for the -playground and -backport repos if factory is going 4.4. Where are those packages for 4.3 supposed to live? (or is that just 11.2 now??) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org