'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 26/07/12 13:05 did gyre and gimble: > * Colin Guthrie ([email protected]) wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 26/07/12 08:05 did gyre and gimble: >> I'm also not sure where the circular dep is (I can't see why filesystem >> has to be upgraded to install the newer rpm: but I'll have to do some >> tests next week in a VM to see if it comes to light). > > The circular dep is easy to understand: > > rpm is linked over perl => urpmi rpm pull new perl > perl have file in /usr/lib => require new filesystem
How does a file in /usr/lib in perl end up requiring the new filesystem package? I don't see any Requires(pre): filesystem > 2.1.9-18 in the perl spec. Is there some kind of special handling of "filesystem" somewhere? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
