Bug in QA:Testcase_Mediakit_Repoclosure

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:33:12 -0500, James wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> In bug#567706, Andre Robatino asked whether the test case
> QA:Testcase_Mediakit_Repoclosure [1] should have found the reported
> issue.  I suspect it should have.
> 
> While retesting, it appears that the following repoclosure command
> correctly identifies the missing dependency:
> 
>         $ repoclosure --repofrompath=media,/media -a x86_64 -r media -n
>         Added media repo from /media
>         Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
>         Checking Dependencies
>         Repos looked at: 1
>            media
>         Num Packages in Repos: 3256
>         package:
>         1:xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-0.20100205gite75dd23.fc13.x86_64
>         from media
>           unresolved deps: 
>              kernel-drm-nouveau = 0:15
> 
> However, when run without the '-n' option, as documented in the test
> case [1], it does not detect bug#567706.
> 
>         repoclosure --repofrompath=media,/media -a x86_64 -r media 
>         Added media repo from /media
>         Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
>         Checking Dependencies
>         Repos looked at: 1
>            media
>         Num Packages in Repos: 3261
> 
> Afaik, the packages on the mediakit should not contain multiple versions
> of a package, so I'm unclear why adding the -n|--newest flag captures
> the missing deps.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_Repoclosure

Did you notice the difference in the "Num Packages in Repos" line?
With -n there are five pkgs less than without -n.