multilib problem with remove

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Apr 24 11:40:28 PDT 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 22:59 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> There seems to be a multilib/"32bit hack" problem on FC5 x86_64, using
> 0.5.15lorg3-rc2:
> 
> # apt-get remove mplayer
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    mplayer (1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5)
>    mplayer-fonts (1.1-3.lvn5)
>    mplayer-gui (1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5)
>    mplayerplug-in.32bit (3.25-1.lvn5)
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 18.9MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>         mplayer >= 1.0-0.lvn.0.13.pre5 is needed by (installed) mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.lvn5.i386
> E: Transaction set check failed
> E: Handler silently failed
> 
> The 32-bit mplayerplug-in was marked for removal, but apparently not
> included in the actual transaction?

Duh, the multilib renaming wasn't handled at all for removal where the
packages need to be referred to with their rpmdb names. Current SVN head
(rev 131) should fix this, thanks for noticing it :)

	- Panu -




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