On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:43:23PM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:

Hi! I did a -Su yesterday, and I got 4 dependency cycle warnings. I became curious and I made this little patch (English clarifiaction needed).

So I found 4 dependency cycle in our repos; these are not necessarily bugs but imho they worth mentioning: glibc->tzdata->glibc readline->glibc->bash->readline coreutils->shadow->coreutils db->coreutils->pam->db

Yes, I noticed exactly this earlier (because I'm using the testing repo) : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016149.html I first thought about trying to make the debugging output of pacman more verbose, but then I remembered the python script of stonecrest, so I used that instead, by lazyness. So thanks a lot for this patch, I think it's very helpful. Btw, stonecrest later updated his script, but it still considered makedepends like depends, which is not exactly what we want from pacman point of view. So I hacked it in a bad way, and here are the final cycles I found : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016174.html