apt lorg3 on RH9

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:31 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > This seems to be epoch related, however it doesn't concern an undefined 
> > epoch afaics. This is what is installed:
> 
> Sigh. Oh well, I certainly did expect epoch breakage on older RH's. The
> repomd data is fedora.us all over again: it stomps zero epochs on every
> package, versioned dependency and provides regardless if the epoch
> actually is defined as zero or doesn't exist.
> 
> Apt treats zero epochs in package versions from repomd as non-existing
> to try to deal with this but it's obviously not enough, provides and
> dependencies need to be dealt with as well. Can you try if the attached
> patch fixes it (do "rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin" first)? This treats zero
> epoch from repomd as nonexistent on dependencies as provides as well,
> which I think should trigger the promoteepoch behavior. Hopefully. I've
> been trying hard to forget about the epoch mess of the old days :)

I now see this after doing the patch:

	You might want to run `apt-get --fix-broken install' to correct these.
	The following packages have unmet dependencies:
	  perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.007003)
	        Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-DateManip: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-HTML-Tagset: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-Parse-Yapp: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-Time-HiRes: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-TimeDate: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-URI: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-libwww-perl: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  perl-libxml-enno: Depends: perl (>= 5.00503)
	  rpm-build: Depends: perl (>= 5.006001)
	E: Unmet dependencies. Try using --fix-broken.

It concerns the following packages:

	[root at rh9i /]# rpm -q --qf "%{name} %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}\n" perl perl-DateManip perl-HTML-Tagset perl-Parse-Yapp perl-Time-HiRes perl-TimeDate perl-URI perl-libwww-perl perl-libxml-enno rpm-build
	perl 2:5.8.0-90.0.13.legacy
	perl-DateManip (none):5.40-30
	perl-HTML-Tagset (none):3.03-28
	perl-Parse-Yapp (none):1.05-30
	perl-Time-HiRes (none):1.38-3
	perl-TimeDate (none):1.1301-5
	perl-URI (none):1.21-7
	perl-libwww-perl (none):5.65-6
	perl-libxml-enno (none):1.02-29
	rpm-build (none):4.2-0.69

This probably is because perl 5.8.0 is considered 'older' than 5.00503 or 
5.007003 and the epoch is disregarded ?

Why did the previous apt handle it correctly ?

So many questions ?

Kind regards,
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