Hello Pascal,
the recent gamin update leads to an unusable kde on 64bit hosts with 32bit packages. -->The user cannot login anymore(!) I will try to explain what happens during the update. This is the list what the updater do: (it wants to update these packages) 1)---> Package gamin.i586 0:0.1.10-0.pm.3 set to be updated 2)---> Package gamin.x86_64 0:0.1.10-0.pm.3 set to be updated 3)---> Package gamin-devel.x86_64 0:0.1.10-0.pm.3 set to be updated Replaced: fam.i586 0:2.7.0-130.21 This will not work, as we will see, for 64bit hosts with 32bit compatibility packages installed.(read on) After the update the user gets (from a failsafe shell:) >ksplash: error while loading shared libraries: libfam.so.0: cannot open >shared object file: No such file or directory >/opt/kde3/bin/kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: >libfam.so.0: >cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. What did happen? I will do this on the command line to show the problem The installer installs the i586 package first: >r...@pxe4[tmp]>rpm -U /tmp/gamin-0.1.10-0.pm.3.i586.rpm fine this worked. Now it tries to install the 64bit package: >r...@pxe4[tmp]>rpm -U gamin-0.1.10-0.pm.3.x86_64.rpm > >error: Failed dependencies: >libfam.so.0 is needed by (installed)gnome-vfs2-32bit-2.24.0-7.4.x86_64 >libfam.so.0 is needed by (installed) kdelibs3-32bit-3.5.10-23.26.x86_64 As you can see, rpm tries to replace the previous 32bit installation with the 64bit one. This fails because the 64bit host has the compatibility 32bit (gnome-vfs and kdelibs) packages installed. (And rpm complains that this would break dependencies, and its right) But the installer installs with --nodeps: >r...@pxe4tmp]>rpm -U --nodeps gamin-0.1.10-0.pm.3.x86_64.rpm >package gamin-0.1.10-0.pm.3.x86_64 is already installed And rpm does not install the 64bit package because its already installed.(but its the i586 package) So the update works smothless, but not successful :) After that the user cannot login anymore, because kde3 uses the 64bit libfam. How did suse managed to get around the problem? They used a fam-32bit package (thus a package with a different name) ./os11.1/suse/x86_64/fam-32bit-2.7.0-130.1.x86_64.rpm This is the solution in this case. gamin needs an additional gamin-32bit package on x86_64 archs, so that the user can use the 32bit compatibility libs (like kdelibs3-32bit) I think in the upcomming 11.2 they get rid of this and fixed rpm internally, but for now in 11.1 its needed. Can you do a gamin-32bit package? (for x86_64 arch) I would do a rollback to fam, but I consider this a bug (and for me a showstopper bug) and it should get a proper fix in packman. regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
