urpmi rejects packages when you use a partial package name among other package names

[Jeff Johnson]

partial package names is likely a bad idea (but related to patterns in cli)

[Doktor5000 (doktor5000)]

Description of problem:

After a default installation of Mageia 1 i586 from the Free-DVD, when installing needed packages, urpmi throws up a conflict for every package which is both in _release and _updates media, in my case for:

vlc
flash-player-plugin
me-tv

The message is always:
Some packages cannot be installed:
foobar-newer-version (because of conflict with foobar-older-version)

Also vlc from core has conflicts with the vlc package from tainted.
As result the wrong version of vlc was installed, but newer version of the libary and plugins:

libvlc5-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
vlc-1.1.9-4.mga1.tainted
vlc-plugin-common-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
vlc-plugin-pulse-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
libvlccore4-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted

urpmi --bug output is attached. Anything else needed to investigate this?

[Doktor5000 (doktor5000)]

Compressed urpmi --bug tarball is available at MediaFire, see the URL field,
as bugzilla only allows 1MiB files at maximum.

[Doktor5000 (doktor5000)]

When mgaapplet runs the first time, it proposes updates for the packages, which were installed seconds before, that seems really weird. It proposes updates for vlc and flash-player-plugin, but not for me-tv, because dvb-apps is missing.
But dvb-apps is available from core_release. Seems really weird altogether.

[Ahmad Samir (ahmad.samir)]

This particular vlc issue is tracked in bug 2258.

[Ahmad Samir (ahmad.samir)]

Please attach urpmi.log of:
LC_ALL=C urpmi --auto-update --test --debug 2>&1 | tee /tmp/urpmi.log

[Doktor5000 (doktor5000)]

Created attachment 677
requested urpmi.log

Well, i continued to install and update already.
If you really want, i'll reproduce with a fresh install in virtualbox.
Nevertheless, here's the requested log. But i thought urpmi --bug output is sufficient to reproduce, when loaded with urpmi --env, no?

[Ahmad Samir (ahmad.samir)]

From the log:
Mon Jul 25 11:45:47 2011 urpmi called with flash-player-plugin thunderbird-de gcompris me-tv wine kernel-firmware-extra vlc --bug vlc_me-tv

there's no package called thunderbird-de, that's why urpmi rejects vlc and flash, which is a bug, because using e.g. 'urpmi thunderbird-de' urpmi will match the partial name and proposes to install mozilla-thunderbird-de.

[Marja11 (marja11)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> From the log:
> Mon Jul 25 11:45:47 2011 urpmi called with flash-player-plugin thunderbird-de
> gcompris me-tv wine kernel-firmware-extra vlc --bug vlc_me-tv
>
> there's no package called thunderbird-de, that's why urpmi rejects vlc and
> flash, which is a bug, because using e.g. 'urpmi thunderbird-de' urpmi will
> match the partial name and proposes to install mozilla-thunderbird-de.

@ thierry
Can you please look into this?

[Marja11 (marja11)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> From the log:
> Mon Jul 25 11:45:47 2011 urpmi called with flash-player-plugin thunderbird-de
> gcompris me-tv wine kernel-firmware-extra vlc --bug vlc_me-tv
>
> there's no package called thunderbird-de, that's why urpmi rejects vlc and
> flash, which is a bug, because using e.g. 'urpmi thunderbird-de' urpmi will
> match the partial name and proposes to install mozilla-thunderbird-de.

In the changelog of urpmi, I don't see anything that I recognize as this issue being solved, so assigning to maintainer

[Jeff Johnson (n3npq)]

tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/rpm/+bug/913225

[Denis Silakov (dsilakov)]

This one was closed with WORKSFORME resolution at upstream, as nobody can reproduce this behavior.

And we have never met such issues in ROSA or OpenMDV, if it matters.