0.5.15lorg3.1 loses epochs on rh7.3/rh8.0/rh9 (promoteepoch?)

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:34:10AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:14:53PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> Actually I'm curious how the heck yum & smart manage to work on those
> >> older releases?
> >
> > If you have an example you want to see whether yum/smart can handle I
> > have RH9, RH8.0 and RH7.3 with apt/smart/yum installed and also
> > zero-epoched repomd (e.g. the default createrepo mode). Upgrade
> > operations work, but these are minimal systems, so there aren't many
> > packages involved (~80 packages).
> >
> > yum/smart install <fill out this form>
> 
> I'd suppose fiddling with the packages involved in these failures would 
> trigger problems if somebody wants to test a bit:
> http://lists.laiskiainen.org/pipermail/apt-rpm-laiskiainen.org/2006-April/000024.html
> http://lists.laiskiainen.org/pipermail/apt-rpm-laiskiainen.org/2006-April/000070.html

I tried with glib-devel and glib: they have an evr of 1:1.2.10-10 and
glib-devel has Requires: glib = 1.2.10-10. Note that glib is already
installed. So it looks like no depsolver will be able to cope with
zero-epoching metadata.

smart
=====

| Loading cache...
| Updating cache...
| ######################################## [100%]
| 
| Computing transaction...
| error: Can't install glib-devel-1:1.2.10-10 at i386: no package provides
| glib = 1.2.10

yum
===

| Reading repository metadata in from local files
| Parsing package install arguments
| Resolving Dependencies
| --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
| ---> Package glib-devel.i386 1:1.2.10-10 set to be updated
| --> Running transaction check
| --> Processing Dependency: glib = 1.2.10 for package: glib-devel
| --> Finished Dependency Resolution
| Error: Missing Dependency: glib = 1.2.10 is needed by package
| glib-devel


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