[MPlayer-users] 1.0pre4 RPMs have broken dependency

Goetz Waschk waschk at informatik.uni-rostock.de
Fri May 7 15:08:23 CEST 2004


Am Fr 07 Mai 2004 13:10:16 GMT schrieb Roderick Johnstone:
> >>[root at localhost RPMS]# rpm -Fvh mplayer-1.0pre4-1.athlon.rpm
> >>mplayer-common-1.0pre4-1.athlon.rpm mplayer-gui-1.0pre4-1.athlon.rpm
> >>error: Failed dependencies:
> >>       mplayer-common = 1.0pre4 is needed by mplayer-1.0pre4-1
> >>       mplayer-common = 1.0pre4 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0pre4-1

This must be the changed behaviour of rpm 4.2.2: you must include the
epoch of the package in the requirement, e.g. 
Requires: %name-common = %epoch:%version-%release

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