Debugging rpm package installation order

Jacek Konieczny jajcus at jajcus.net
Fri Aug 9 22:39:23 CEST 2013


On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:58:57 -0400
Jeffrey Johnson <n3npq at me.com> wrote:
> 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.

But THERE IS NO LOOP. RPM shows loop due to some imaginary dependency.

Package A requires package B which requires /some/dir from package FHS.
But my RPM shows: package A requires package B which requires /some/dir
from package C which requires package D which requires /some/other/dir
from package E which requires package A. And package C does not contain
/some/dir, nor package E contains /some/other/dir. RPM sees dependencies
which are not there, so it reports loop. Details in my previous mail

Greets,
	Jacek


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