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Tasklist

FS#19442 - Packages need version dependencies if required

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mike Smith (scgtrp) - Thursday, 13 May 2010, 02:15 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 13 May 2010, 02:49 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Many packages do not have proper versions in their dependencies when they are linked against a specific version of a library. For example (using cat as my pacman binary is currently broken due to this same issue):
[laptop: mike in ~]> cat /var/lib/pacman/local/libarchive-2.8.0-1/depends
%DEPENDS%
zlib
bzip2
xz-utils
acl
openssl
expat

Note that no versions are given for any of these dependencies. However, pacman will break if the wrong version of any of these is installed:
[laptop: mike in ~]> ldd /usr/bin/pacman |grep ssl
libssl.so.0.9.8 => not found
[laptop: mike in ~]> pacman
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I realize this can be easily worked around (at least temporarily) by making some symlinks in /usr/lib. But breaking package management on the system completely because I didn't upgrade my whole system at once is unacceptable.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 02:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Only full system upgrades are supported.

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