Felix Miata composed on 2025-02-11 23:06 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata composed on 2025-02-06 14:36 (UTC-0500):
> J Leslie Turriff composed on 2025-02-06 13:10
(UTC-0600):
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>>> # zypper se -sx trinity-filesystem | grep
files
>>> i | trinity-filesystem | package | 14.1.3-1.osstw | noarch | (System
>>> Packages) v | trinity-filesystem | package | 14.1.3-1.osstw | noarch |
>>> TDEnoarch # rpm -e --nodeps trinity-filesystem
>>> # rpm -qa | grep y-files
>>> # rpm -ivh
>> Does this happen only on Tumbleweed
installations?
> I don't remember. I suspect it may be only
those and Slowroll, but on all, there's
> a suspicious recurrence of same package versions being reinstalled over and over
> again on those two and Leap.
>> If so, it looks like some
>> sort of weirdness in the repository (or repository content) definitions. I
>> suppose that using a capability selector (e.g.
'trinity-filesystem<=14.1.3',
>> etc.) shows the same?
> I don't know anything about
"capability" selection. My only suspicion about these
> package reinstallations, a tenuous one, has to do with my TW and SR repo caches
> being on bind mounts, not local, with rpm file ownerships not being 0:0.
Force installing the package changes nothing
apparent:
# rpm -Uvh --force trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
Verifying... ################################# [100%]
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw################################# [ 50%]
Cleaning up / removing...
2:trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw################################# [100%]
# zypper --no-refresh se -s y-files | grep -v
'32bit|debug|devel|srcp|openSUSE-20' | egrep 'x86|noarch'| sort -f
il | trinity-filesystem | package | 14.1.3-1.osstw | noarch | (System Packages)
vl | trinity-filesystem | package | 14.1.3-1.osstw | noarch | TDEnoarch
#
The puzzle continues:
# zypper --no-refresh se -s ty-files | grep -v
'32bit|debug|devel|srcp|openSUSE-20' | egrep 'x86|noarch'| sort -f
i+ | trinity-filesystem | package | 14.1.3-1.osstw | noarch | (System Packages)
v | trinity-filesystem | package | 14.1.3-1.osstw | noarch | TDEnoarch
# zypper -v in trinity-filesystem
Verbosity: 2
Non-option program arguments: 'trinity-filesystem'
Initializing Target
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Non-OSS
Checking whether to refresh metadata for OSS
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Update
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'trinity-filesystem' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch'. The highest
available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...
Force resolution: No
Nothing to do.
# zypper -v in -f -d trinity-filesystem
Verbosity: 2
Non-option program arguments: 'trinity-filesystem'
Initializing Target
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Non-OSS
Checking whether to refresh metadata for OSS
Checking whether to refresh metadata for Update
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Forcing installation of 'trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch' from repository
'TDEnoarch'.
Resolving package dependencies...
Force resolution: No
The following package is going to be reinstalled:
trinity-filesystem 14.1.3-1.osstw
1 package to reinstall.
Package download size: 56.9 KiB
Download only.
Backend: classic_rpmtrans --download-only
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
committing
Retrieving: trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch (TDEnoarch)
(1/1), 56.9
KiB
Retrieving: trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
.................................................................................................................[done
(43.4 KiB/s)]
Failed to provide Package trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch (TDEnoarch). Do you
want to retry retrieval?
[
TDEnoarch|http://archive.trinitydesktop.net/trinity/rpm/osstw/trinity-r14/R…]
Can't provide file './trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm' from
repository 'TDEnoarch'
History:
- Can't hardlink/copy
/var/tmp/AP_0xK6G459/trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm to
/var/cache/zypp/packages/TDEnoarch
- Can't provide ./trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i
CommitResult (total 1, done 0, error 1, skipped 0, updateMessages 0)
Installation has completed with error.
# rpm -Uvh tmp/trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
Verifying... ################################# [100%]
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
package trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch is already installed
ab85m:~ # rpm -Uvh --nodeps --oldpackage tmp/trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
Verifying... ################################# [100%]
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
package trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch is already installed
ab85m:~ # rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps --oldpackage
tmp/trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
Verifying... ################################# [100%]
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
1:trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw################################# [ 50%]
Cleaning up / removing...
2:trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw################################# [100%]
# ls -gG tmp
total 114
-rw-rw-r-- 1 58262 Jan 26 05:34 trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm
-r--r--r-- 1 58076 Oct 29 03:30 trinity-filesystem-14.1.3-1.osstw.noarch.rpm202412
#
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