[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kbd and klibc-kbd

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Roman Kyrylych a écrit :
>
> > 2008/3/21, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de>:
>  >>  somehow we need a depend that also adds klibc-kbd, else systems get broken
>  >>  that have keymap hook activated.
>  >>  probably kbd package itself needs this depend.
>  >
>  > Just an info for others who reads this,
>  > we discussed the issue on IRC and there are actually 2 issues:
>  > 1) during -Syu kbd (which doesn't include keymap hook now) is
>  > installed before kernel,
>  > then mkinitcpio is run during kernel install and it fails because of
>  > no hook available.
>  > 2) klibc-kbd is not installed as a new dependency of to-be-upgraded mknitcpio,
>  > it looks to me like some weird pacman bug. :-/
>  >
>  > #1 can be solved by changing depends=(... mkinitcpio>=0.5.15 ..) in
>  > kernel26 PKGBUILD to the current mkinitcpio version (which depends on
>  > klibc-kbd)
>
>  I don't understand, what does that change? Though it's probably not a
>  bad idea to do it.
>
>
>  > but if #2 is a real bug - this won't work anyway, so #2 should be investigated.
>  > Tobias, could you please resend that part of pacman.log to pacman-dev
>  > ML or at least to Dan?
>  >
>
>  pacman seems to work fine here. If it didn't pull new dependencies of
>  packages, that would be pretty bad.
>  More details and a part of pacman.log to pacman-dev would indeed be
>  appreciated :)

Our dependency handling as of 3.1 is pretty rock-solid. I'd be
hard-pressed to believe pacman is at fault here, but a pacman.log,
pacman debug output, and anything else you can provide on a bug report
would be appreciated.

-Dan