Why does smart want to downgrade perl?

[Axel Thimm]

Could you file this under http://tracker.labix.org/ including the
version of smart and the package used?

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:46:17PM -0500, Raman Gupta wrote:
> Hello, I have been using smart on FC4 and really like it. However I've
> run into this situation where smart wants to downgrade perl.  Based on
> my repository setup, I don't believe this should be happening.
> 
> Basically, I have fedora-updates setup with priority 20. However, even
> though updates has perl-3:5.8.6-22 (same as my local version) for some
> reason smart insists on downgrading to perl-3:5.8.6-18. BTW, if I leave
> the updates channel at the default priority, then for some reason I
> don't get any new packages from updates, which is another problem I am
> confused about (according to the FAQ, smart should pull in the latest
> versions, so I shouldn't need the priority 20).
> 
> Below is the transcript -- I have also shown a query for mysql, which is
> another package in updates and is working fine (smart is not trying to
> downgrade it):
> 
> # smart --shell
> Smart Package Manager 0.40 - Shell Mode
> Loading cache...
> Updating cache...
> 
> smart> update
> ...
> 
> smart> query --show-channels --show-priority perl
> perl-3:5.8.6-15 at i386 {0} [os]
> perl-3:5.8.6-16.fc4 at i386 {20} [updates]
> perl-3:5.8.6-18 at i386 {20} [updates]
> perl-3:5.8.6-22 at i386 {10} [rpm-db]
> perl-3:5.8.6-22 at i386 {20} [updates]
> 
> smart> upgrade
> 
> Downgrading packages (1):
>   perl-3:5.8.6-18 at i386
> 
> 11.5MB of package files are needed. 4.3kB will be freed.
> 
> Confirm changes? (Y/n): n
> 
> smart> query --show-channels --show-priority mysql
> mysql-4.1.11-2 at i386 {0} [os]
> mysql-4.1.14-1.FC4.1 at i386 {20} [updates]
> mysql-4.1.15-1.FC4.1 at i386 {20} [updates]
> mysql-4.1.16-1.FC4.1 at i386 {20} [rpm-db, updates]
> 
> 
> It is interesting to note that the updates channel has both the -18
> package and the -22 package. It is also interesting to note that mysql
> displays the latest package version as being in both rpm-db and updates
> at the same priority whereas perl shows them separately.
> 
> Does anybody have any clue as to why this is occurring? There is no
> explicit package priority set for perl.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raman

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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