Summary - Broken dependencies in Fedora Extras - 2006-09-15

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 15:53 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> [...]
> >     ville.skytta AT iki.fi
> >         kmod-em8300 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i586    
> >         kmod-em8300 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i686    
> >         kmod-em8300 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.ppc    
> >         kmod-em8300 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.x86_64    
> >         kmod-em8300-kdump - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i686    
> >         kmod-em8300-kdump - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.x86_64    
> >         kmod-em8300-smp - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i686    
> >         kmod-em8300-smp - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.ppc    
> >         kmod-em8300-xen0 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i686    
> >         kmod-em8300-xen0 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.x86_64    
> [...]
> > package: kmod-em8300-xen0 - 0.15.3-7.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.i686 from fedora-extras-5-i386
> >   unresolved deps: 
> >      kernel-i686 = 0:2.6.17-1.2174_FC5xen0
> 
> False positive? The kernel seems to still be around...

I don't know the details how this script works, but I guess if it
examines only the newest version of each package in the repos, that
could be the culprit (ie. in this case a new kernel was available so
maybe it ignored the 2nd newest one even if it was there?).