Debugging rpm package installation order

Jeffrey Johnson n3npq at me.com
Fri Aug 9 17:58:57 CEST 2013


On Aug 9, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Jacek Konieczny wrote:

> 
>> The easiest way to identify if a "fix" is functional is to use this
>> macro to select exactly one edge to ignore in order to break the LOOP.a
> 
> Exactly one edge of 30 problematic edges reported?
> 

Yes. Eliminating any edge eliminates the loop. The remaining
29 edges are usually sufficient to provide adequate ordering info to tsort.

Also: Fix the 1st LOOP detected first. The errors cascade adding to complexity.

> 
> Maybe the package dependencies are right, but the RPM dependency checking is
> broken for some reason? Any ideas?
> 

Maybe. I can say that the existing rpm implementation has been used by many for
years without any change whatsoever.

FIx your LOOP before guessing at what is broken.

73 de Jeff



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