On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:49:28 -0400 Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote: > > But THERE IS NO LOOP. RPM shows loop due to some imaginary > > dependency. > > > > Before shouting (or comparing to rpm-4.5 behavior),
It was a bit rude, indeed. But I am frustrated. And my mail with important details didn't get through to the list, I have not noticed it before I shouted… > Meanwhile you have reported a LOOP message (and you have already seen > that the _dependency_whiteout macro changes/simplifies rpm behavior). Yes, but I don't like using _dependency_whiteout macro applied to random packages. > rpm-5.x has additional dependency rules: > > 1) every file "requires" its parent directory > 2) every symlink "requires" its target end-point > > I put the "requires" in quote solely because yoi will _NOT_ see this > information with > rpm -qp --requires foo*.rpm > queries. Otherwise the additional "requires" behave exactly like > other Requires:, both as dependency assertions and as pre-requsites > for topologically sorting. I understand this behaviour. But it only explains the 'requires' parts of my „phantom” dependencies. Look once more at this: D: LOOP: D: removing iproute2-3.4.0-1.aos2.i686 "Requires: /sbin" from tsort relations. D: removing net-snmp-5.6.1-4.aos3.i686 "Requires(auto): libnetsnmp.so.25" from tsort relations. D: removing net-snmp-libs-5.6.1-4.aos3.i686 "Requires(auto): libnl.so.3" from tsort relations. D: removing libnl-3.0-3.aos2.i686 "Requires(auto): libc.so.6" from tsort relations. D: removing glibc-2.15-10.aos1.i686 "Requires: /usr/share/man/fr/man5" from tsort relations. D: removing nagios-nrpe-2.12-2.aos3.i686 "Requires(post): /sbin/chkconfig" from tsort relations. [...] It is true, that iproute2 requires /sbin and that glibc requires /usr/share/man/fr/man5, as those packages contain files in this directories. But why does 'Requires: /sbin' pull 'net-snmp' and why 'Requires: /usr/share/man/fr/man5' pulls nagios-nrpe? Both '/sbin' and '/usr/share/man/fr/man5' are contained in the 'FHS' package. The requirements are valid, but RPM seems to pick random packages to satisfy them. $ rpm -qp --provides nagios-nrpe-2.14-1.aos1.i686.rpm config(nagios-nrpe) = 0:2.14-1.aos1 nagios-core nagios-nrpe = 0:2.14-1.aos1 $ rpm -qlp nagios-nrpe-2.14-1.aos1.i686.rpm /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg /etc/nagios/nrpe.d /etc/rc.d/init.d/nrpe /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nagios-nrpe.conf /usr/sbin/nrpe /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14 /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14/Changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14/LEGAL.gz /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14/README.SSL.gz /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14/README.Solaris.gz /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14/README.gz /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-2.14/SECURITY.gz /var/run/nrpe $ rpm -qp --provides net-snmp-5.7.2-1.aos2.i686.rpm config(net-snmp) = 0:5.7.2-1.aos2 snmpd net-snmp = 0:5.7.2-1.aos2 $ rpm -qlp net-snmp-5.7.2-1.aos2.i686.rpm /etc/init/snmpd.conf /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf /etc/sysconfig/snmpd /usr/bin/net-snmp-create-v3-user 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/usr/share/man/man5/variables.5.gz /usr/share/man/man8/snmpd.8.gz /usr/share/snmp/snmp_perl.pl /var/lib/net-snmp /var/log/snmpd.log Do you still think everything is ok here? Greets, Jacek _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en