[pacman-dev] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: [arch] circular dependence in core

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/11/1, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:17:31PM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> > 2007/11/1, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> > > 2007/11/1, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > > > Forwarding to the dev list in case people don't read the arch list.
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > From: Mister Dobalina <reebydobalina at yahoo.ca>
> > > > Date: Nov 1, 2007 10:27 AM
> > > > Subject: [arch] circular dependence in core
> > > > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch at archlinux.org>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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)