Bug 3081

Summary:	The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages that are older than the installed ones: libfreetype6-devel-2.4.4-4.mga1
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Thomas Spuhler <thomas>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, dmorganec, jani.valimaa, mageia
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	libfreetype6-devel-2.4.4-4.mga1	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2475

Description Thomas Spuhler 2011-10-17 06:46:53 CEST

Description of problem:
The following package cannot be installed because it depends on packages
that are older than the installed ones:
libfreetype6-devel-2.4.4-4.mga1
Continue installation anyway? (Y/n) y

as a result, gtk2-devel doesn't install

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


How reproducible:


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Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-17 12:32:33 CEST

is see no gtk2-devel in the repo...

CC: (none) => dmorganec

Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-17 12:36:17 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 2475

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2011-10-17 16:11:08 CEST

lib{64,}gtk+2.0-devel provides gtk2-devel.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2011-10-21 02:31:16 CEST

While I've had no problem installing libfreetype6-devel, the following
does look strange to me ...
[root@hodgins ~]# urpmq --requires libfreetype6-devel |grep ==
--requires behaviour changed, use --requires-recursive to get the old behaviour
libfreetype6-devel: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4]
libfreetype6-devel: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4]
libfreetype6-devel: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4]
libfreetype6-devel: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4]
[root@hodgins ~]# urpmq --provides libfreetype6|grep 'libfreetype6\['
libfreetype6: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4-5.1.mga1.tainted]
libfreetype6: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4-4.mga1]
libfreetype6: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4-5.2.mga1]
libfreetype6: libfreetype6[== 2.4.4-5.2.mga1.tainted]

Does the part after the - in the provides get ignored
when satisfying the requires/

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2011-10-21 05:54:20 CEST

I think it's not strange at all. If we look at .spec we can see that the -devel pkg requires "only" %{libname} = %{version} and the lib pkg provides %{version}-%{release} (as pkgs normally does).

So yes, the latter part is ignored or it's irrelevant as the rpm compares only %{version} part in this time. Maybe someone who knows rpm better, could explain more.

Comment 5 Sander Lepik 2011-10-21 12:20:08 CEST

AFAIK provides and requires must mach.. If one package requires with release then another has to provide with release and vice versa..

CC: (none) => sander.lepik

Comment 6 Thomas Spuhler 2011-11-08 05:22:17 CET

Has this been solved ? or became obsolete?
Although I reported the bug I haven't seen a problem for a long time.
If nobody complains, I'll close it.

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2011-11-21 19:02:17 CET

no replay, let's go

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