Bug 14036

Summary:	rpmdrake does not provide why rpm can not be selected.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bit Twister <bittwister2>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Triaged
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO
Source RPM:	rpmdrake-6.11-1.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Bit Twister 2014-09-02 17:29:20 CEST

Description of problem:

rpmdrake does not provide message as to why rpm can not be selected.
Tried to install mplayer tainted x86_64 and get

Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:
- mplayer-1.1.1-10.r37263.1.mga5.tainted.x86_64

No reason provided. But urpmi gives a reason, although pretty vague, it is a hint to the problem.

# urpmi mplayer
The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages
that are older than the installed ones:
mplayer-1.1.1-10.r37263.1.mga5.tainted
Continue installation anyway? (Y/n) n

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tried to install mplayer with rpmdrake
2. Shows additional packages required, clicked OK
3. Answered Yes to install and get
Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:
- mplayer-1.1.1-10.r37263.1.mga5.tainted.x86_64



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 David Walser 2014-09-02 23:53:20 CEST

You need to manually downgrade libdvdnav4 to the version now in Cauldron to fix this, but yes you'd think you'd get a more detailed error message about that.

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-19 20:31:58 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Summary: 5a2: rpmdrake does not provide why rpm can not be selected. => rpmdrake does not provide why rpm can not be selected.
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO

Comment 2 Bit Twister 2016-01-20 09:56:32 CET

Problem has been fixed on mga6.

Comment 3 Rémi Verschelde 2016-01-20 10:04:48 CET

(In reply to Bit Twister from comment #2)
> Problem has been fixed on mga6.

You mean the problem with mplayer's installation, or with urpmi not being explicit about why it can't install the package?

Comment 4 Bit Twister 2016-01-20 11:14:33 CET

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #3)
> (In reply to Bit Twister from comment #2)
> > Problem has been fixed on mga6.
> 
> You mean the problem with mplayer's installation, or with urpmi not being
> explicit about why it can't install the package?

Yes.  :)

Bug was written against rpmdrake which is now providing reason(s) why a package fails to install.

mplayer was the package which failed at the time of bug creation.
mplayer updates in mga5 and is no longer failing.

Comment 5 Bit Twister 2017-01-31 19:06:43 CET

closing bug.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED