Broken dependencies with Fedora 12 + updates-testing - 2010-07-02

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:41:14 +0200, Marcela wrote:

> On 07/02/2010 12:17 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies:
> >
> > ======================================================================
> > The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
> > ======================================================================
> >
> > package: 4:perl-5.10.0-82.fc12.i686 from fedora-12-x86_64
> >   unresolved deps:
> >      perl-libs = 4:5.10.0-82.fc12
> >
> > package: 4:perl-5.10.0-82.fc12.ppc64 from fedora-12-ppc
> >   unresolved deps:
> >      perl-libs = 4:5.10.0-82.fc12
> >

> I'm sorry, but you must have mistake in your script.

*Please* do learn to trust automation.

This is multiarch breakage. Pay attention to the "perl" version-release.
It is _not_ the version-release of the latest F12 "perl" in "updates".
The latest one is release -87.fc12 from December 2009.
F12 initially shipped with a multiarch "perl", whereas later updates
no longer are multiarch. That's why there still is a perl.i686 in the
fedora x86_64 repo and a perl.ppc64 in the fedora ppc repo. It isn't
obsoleted or replaced by any update.

As why this broken dep has entered the report only recently, consider
asking rel-eng or the "mash" developers about whether they have altered
the multi-arch compose strategy.

> Does this script show problems also in other releases or only in this one?

The script's results are correct.