2007/11/1, Xavier :

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:17:31PM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2007/11/1, Roman Kyrylych :

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2007/11/1, Aaron Griffin :

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Forwarding to the dev list in case people don't read the arch list.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mister Dobalina Date: Nov 1, 2007 10:27 AM Subject: [arch] circular dependence in core To: General Discusson about Arch Linux

coreutils 6.9-3 -> depends on bash

bash 3.2.025-1 -> depends on readline>=5.2

readline 5.2-4 -> depends on ncurses

ncurses 5.6-4 -> depends on coreutils -> oops!

This was casused by this commit: http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/ncurses/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&cvsroot=Core&only_with_tag=CURRENT I think we should revert it (because dependencies of other packages are fine and make more sense).

And it was ncurses-5.6-4 package release that broke it. http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/ncurses/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.24&r2=text&tr2=1.26&diff_format=h And we all missed this because pacman didn't complain when upgrading.

Well, no, this doesn't prevent pacman from installing the packages, only from sorting them, which is usually not critical. So pacman only prints a little warning in the --debug output when it detects a loop while sorting the packages, but that's all. Something like "dependency cycle detected"

I don't know if this message should always be printed, on standard pacman output. There could maybe be a pacman option or an external tool for detecting dependencies cycles.

Nevertheless I uploaded the fixed package to Testing. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)