[packman] packman repo issues with openSUSE 11.0

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Dear wonderful packman team,

I'm struggling to get my repos/internal update process clean for 11.0 ATM,
but unfortunately the packman repo is a real blocker at the moment. In 
order to get a gripe on it, let's start with the most offending issues:

# zyp se -s libgstreamer-0_10
Lese installierte Pakete...

S | Name                | Typ   | Version         | Architektur | Repository            
--+---------------------+-------+-----------------+-------------+-----------------------
  | libgstreamer-0_10   | Paket | 0.10.20-42.pm.1 | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
i | libgstreamer-0_10-0 | Paket | 0.10.19-16.1    | i586        | openSUSE-11.0-FTP 11.0

See, you replace the official libgstreamer-0_10-0 package with one missing 
the -0 resulting in all kinds of dependency trouble. 

Next libmtp:

# zyp se -s libmtp
Lese installierte Pakete...

S | Name                | Typ   | Version        | Architektur | Repository            
--+---------------------+-------+----------------+-------------+-----------------------
i | libmtp              | Paket | 0.2.6.1-16.1   | i586        | openSUSE-11.0-FTP 11.0
  | libmtp-devel        | Paket | 0.3.0-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
  | libmtp-devel        | Paket | 0.2.6.1-16.1   | i586        | openSUSE-11.0-FTP 11.0
  | libmtp-hal          | Paket | 0.3.0-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
  | libmtp-tools        | Paket | 0.3.0-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
  | libmtp6             | Paket | 0.2.2-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
i | libmtp7             | Paket | 0.2.6.1-16.1   | i586        | openSUSE-11.0-FTP 11.0
v | libmtp7             | Paket | 0.2.6.1-0.pm.5 | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
  | libmtp8             | Paket | 0.3.0-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
  | libmtp8-debuginfo   | Paket | 0.3.0-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          
  | libmtp8-debugsource | Paket | 0.3.0-0.pm.5   | i586        | Packman-RPMs          

Now, that package is nasty. You try to provide the distro version also,
but look, the distro version is still newer versionwise. Nasty.

Oh, well, next one:

# zyp se -s libmpeg2
Lese installierte Pakete...

S | Name           | Typ   | Version        | Architektur | Repository    
--+----------------+-------+----------------+-------------+---------------
i | libmpeg2       | Paket | 0.4.0b-23.pm.4 | i586        | (Systempakete)
  | libmpeg2-0     | Paket | 0.5.1-0.pm.2   | i586        | Packman-RPMs  
  | libmpeg2-devel | Paket | 0.5.1-0.pm.2   | i586        | Packman-RPMs  
xrated:/home/hp# rpm -qi libmpeg2
Name        : libmpeg2                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.4.0b                            Vendor: http://packman.links2linux.de
Release     : 23.pm.4                       Build Date: Mo 21 Apr 2008 20:50:22 CEST
Install Date: Do 26 Jun 2008 22:38:45 CEST      Build Host: packman-bs
Group       : Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Editors and Convertors   Source RPM: libmpeg2-0.4.0b-23.pm.4.src.rpm
Size        : 440558                           License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mo 21 Apr 2008 20:52:02 CEST, Key ID f899f20d9a795806
Packager    : Detlef Reichelt <detlef at links2linux.de>
URL         : http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Ein freier MPEG-2 Videostromdecoder
Description :
libmpeg2 ist eine freie Bibliothek zum dekodieren von mpeg-2 und mpeg-1 Videostroemen.
Distribution: openSUSE 11.0 (i586)

# rpm -q --provides -p libmpeg2-0-0.5.1-0.pm.2.i586.rpm
libmpeg22_0  
libmpeg2.so.0  
libmpeg2convert.so.0  
libmpeg2-0 = 0.5.1-0.pm.2

Hmm, looks like it's missing "Provides: libmpeg2" as well as a "Obsoletes: 
libmpeg2" line. If I install libmpeg2-0 with yast, yast seems to ignore 
these file conflicts:
/usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0
/usr/lib/libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0

# rpm -qvl libmpeg2-0 | egrep 'libmpeg2.so.0|libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0'
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               17 Sep 29 23:57 /usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0 -> libmpeg2.so.0.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           132408 Sep 29 23:57 /usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               24 Sep 29 23:57 /usr/lib/libmpeg2convert.so.0 -> libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            30509 Sep 29 23:57 /usr/lib/libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0

# rpm -qvl libmpeg2 | egrep 'libmpeg2.so.0|libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0'
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               17 Apr 21 20:50 /usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0 -> libmpeg2.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           123745 Apr 21 20:50 /usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               24 Apr 21 20:50 /usr/lib/libmpeg2convert.so.0 -> libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            30857 Apr 21 20:50 /usr/lib/libmpeg2convert.so.0.0.0

Since /usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0 points to two different shared libs, this 
conflict isn't even funny (note to myself: file a bug report against
yast for this one).

I can resolve all issues in one or another way, since I use my instruments
rpm, zypper, yum, yast2 sw_single in creative ways, but resolving these 
issues will definitely help a lot of people (including me ;-). 
yum is pretty nice in detecting such issues, btw. I can provide a saner
build as to what SuSE delivers on request.

Let me know, if I can provide more infos, help, whatever.

Keep up the great work,
Pete