Re: Interesting issue with Requires(missingok)

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ville Skytt=E4 wrote:

> I ran into an interesting issue which I guess might be caused by use of
> Requires(missingok) or at least I can't figure out what else could be
> the culprit:
>
>  # apt-get upgrade
>  Reading Package Lists... Done
>  Building Dependency Tree... Done
>  You might want to run `apt-get --fix-broken install' to correct these.
>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    smart-config: Depends: smart but it is not installable
>  E: Unmet dependencies. Try using --fix-broken.
>
>  # rpm -q smart smart-config
>  smart-0.41-1
>  smart-config-1.0-2
>
> Eh, smart is not installable while it's already installed?  Also, smart
> is available also in a configured repo and all dependencies should be
> met.  This is with pre-FC5 Rawhide, x86_64, apt lorg3-pre1, and the repo
> and the packages are:

Might indeed have to do with missingok, it's not really much tested...=20
I'll have a look hopefully this evening.

 =09- Panu -