rpm 5.3.7
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00001 00119 pango-gtkbeta-devel pango-gtkbeta 00120 XFree86 Mesa 00121 compat-glibc db2 00122 compat-glibc db1 00123 pam initscripts 00124 kernel initscripts 00125 initscripts sysklogd 00126 /* 6.2 */ 00127 egcs-c++ libstdc++ 00128 /* 6.1 */ 00129 pilot-link-devel pilot-link 00130 /* 5.2 */ 00131 pam pamconfig 00132 \endverbatim 00133 00134 Why are there new loops? Because tsort is trying to use all of the 00135 dependency relations for ordering, while the previous tsort ignored all 00136 Requires: from added packages. 00137 00138 Except for the "well known" libtermcap <-> bash loop (which is just wrong), 00139 all of the other dependencies are simply not needed in an upgrade context 00140 to perform package ordering. Please note that all of the known to cause 00141 loop dependencies listed above are, for now, explicitly ignored when 00142 determining package install ordering. 00143 00144 \subsection tsort_summary Summary 00145 00146 So what does this all mean? Basically not much, unless you find yourself 00147 trying to specify dependencies amongst a set of packages correctly and 00148 happen to create a dependency loop. 00149 00150 And, before you start adding the new-fangled syntax to packages, please 00151 remember that rpm will almost certainly be auto-generating fine-grained 00152 dependencies for %post et al scriptlets pretty soon. Truly, rpm needs to 00153 make packaging easier, not provide Yet More Complicated Syntax in spec files. 00154 00155 With thanks to Ken Estes for doing the implementation in bash2 that makes 00156 it possible to auto-generate scriptlet dependencies, blame me for the long, 00157 slow deployment. 00158 00159 */