rpm ordering failures

[Vincent Danen]

* Vincent Danen <vdanen at annvix.org> [2006-07-21 11:03:40 -0600]:

> I'm starting to see this now:
> 
> Fetched 3407kB in 1s (2731kB/s)
> error: rpmtsOrder failed, 3 elements remain
> E: Ordering failed for 3 packages
> 
> The above is with RPM::Order "true" set.  I get the same thing without
> it set.
> 
> [root at ares ~]# rpm -q apt
> apt-0.5.15lorg3.1-5787avx
> 
> Any idea what the problem is?  I was trying to do a full version upgrade
> of Annvix last night with apt and couldn't because of this (although
> there were 22 packages it noted).  This is with a simple handful of
> packages to upgrade:
> 
> [root at ares ~]# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   chkconfig dcron diffutils initscripts iproute2 iputils less lib64mhash2 lib64usb0.1_4 lib64utempter0 mailx makedev mingetty
>   mktemp php-mhash rsec screen
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ethtool
> 17 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/3407kB of archives.
> After unpacking 343kB of additional disk space will be used.
> 
> I don't *think* it's anything I did in terms of packaging... urpmi is
> handling all of this flawlessly.

Sorry, this is something I did.  urpmi fails on this one too (it didn't
on the big upgrade last night).  I had a dependency loop with two
packages requiring each other in the Requires(pre).

Sorry for the noise.

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