FS#15366 - Readline does not have proper Bash dependency; Can BRICK SYSTEM if upgraded by itself.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jeremy Sands (georgia_tech_swagger) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 10:56 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 04 July 2009, 11:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: I installed Firefox 3.5, but had to sync against ftp.archlinux.org to get it, as it wasn't on any of the mirrors yet. When I tried a system upgrade, it was going to be like 350 MB of stuff only on the 60 KB/s throttled mirror ... eff that.

So I went about installing some other stuff, which required readline 6. So I upgraded *JUST* readline 6. All fine and dandy. And then bash, which I did not upgrade, threw a libreadline.so.5 error on everything. Can't su. Can't open any new app. Bricked system.

Readline 6 needs to absolutely require bash 4.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 04 July 2009, 11:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:   FS#15351   FS#15335 

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