[issue206] smart continually re-installs packages

[Jeremy P Lemieux at Labix Tracker]

New submission from Jeremy P Lemieux <labix at jeremylemieux.net>:

This issue is happening on multiple systems, primarily SuSE 9.2 and 9.3.  When
passed a list of packages (using 'cat <file listing packages> | xargs smart
install <misc options>', the documented behaviour should be for smart to return
that already installed packages are installed, and to install uninstalled
packages.  This works for most packages, but some subset are installed over and
over again regardless of their state.  This behavior is not 100% consistent, and
sometimes does not happen, with smart exiting without reinstalling anything.

Smart upgrade (with or without update) works fine on these systems, functioning
as advertised.

I'm attempting to build a concrete list of the subset of packages showing this
behaviour, but it is not consistent across machines (though some packages such
as xorg-x11-libs and lynx are common).

Machines in question are i386/x86 32 bit.

More info as needed...

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messages: 696
nosy: jpl
priority: urgent
project: smart
status: unread
title: smart continually re-installs packages

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