Smart's "Groundhog Day"

[Christoph Thiel]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:

> > > Smart is enamoured with the KOPETE and the 
> > > KDENETWORK3-INSTANTMESSENGER packages (RPMs). Smart keeps cycling 
> > > between these 2 ad finitum after either one is updated: install 
> > > kopete and it wants to update kdenetwork3
> > > - and other way 'round.
> > 
> > This is a packaging error that should have been fixed already. Do you 
> > have the KDE:Backports and KDE:KDE3 channels enabled?
> 
> But still smart should have a stable solution even if the packages have 
> bugs and obsolete/replace each other. Christoph could you elaborate on 
> the packaging errors so we can understand why smmmart was confused? 
> Thanks!

IIRC KDENETWORK3-INSTANTMESSENGER and KOPETE where obsoleteing each other. 
To fix the problem, our KDE maintainers have added a version (<=) to 
obsolete only some old versions.


Regards
	Christoph