[Yum-devel] Bug in rpmUtils whatProvides?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Apr 20 18:52:43 UTC 2005


> It seems like this is the way that RPM behaves, see this simple test case:
> 
> [gijs at bruce i386]% sudo rpm -Uvh --test test2-1-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         wacko-jacko > 2.0 is needed by test2-1-1.i386
> [gijs at bruce i386]% rpm -qp --provides test1-1-1.i386.rpm
> wacko-jacko
> test1 = 0:1-1
> [gijs at bruce i386]% sudo rpm -Uvh --test test2-1-1.i386.rpm test1-1-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

grumble. I'm pretty sure rpm didn't USED to act like that.

I'll ask paul if he knows what the 'expected behavior' is so we can make
sure we're matching it.

I hate to think it changed :(

-sv





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