On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 05:55:59PM -0600, Gary Robertson wrote:
> Thanks for pointing out the correct mailing list to use for this... I
> wasn't sure which one was appropriate and wanted to be as low-key as
> possible about this issue since I wasn't paying much attention about what
> was updated.
> 
> The virtual environment in question is my Ubuntu 12.04 workstation... not a
> local LAVA server environment.  So there is no lava deployment tool in this
> environment AFAIK.  The lava tools were installed from binary packages
> found in a combination of the official Ubuntu repositories plus "deb-amd64
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/linaro-maintainers/toolchain/ubuntu precise main"
> and "deb-amd64 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linaro-maintainers/tools/ubuntuprecise
> main".
> 
> I normally assume that any updates which come from the 12.04
> distribution-compatible repositories should be a safe and reliable upgrade,
> and I try to stick with binaries from the official repositories rather than
> locally compiled packages in order to minimize packaging compatibility and
> upgrade issues.  Why is a package for Ubuntu 12.04 requiring pyxdg ==0.25
> when the latest pyxdg version available in the 12.04 repositories is
> 0.19-3ubuntu2 (which was already installed)?  And why didn't this
> requirement get listed as a dependency in the package, flagged as an unmet
> dependency and prevent the package upgrade from occurring?
>
> And most importantly now that this binary update has occurred despite the
> unmet dependency, how do I cleanly get a working set of lava tools for
> accessing the production servers from command line scripts again?  Is there
> a way to back out the update and revert to the earlier version?  The new
> lava-scheduler-tool package version is 0.6-0ubuntu1~linaro1, but I don't
> know what the previous working version was nor if it is still accessible
> for installation.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.  Fortunately I'll be on vacation next week so
> I have some time to fix this before it becomes a serious handicap to my
> work.

That was a mistake and will be fixed ASAP, bear with me. Sorry for the
inconvenience.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro
Software Engineer - Linaro
http://www.linaro.org

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