Error: Missing Dependency: xine-lib = 1.1.7 is needed by package xine-lib-extras-nonfree

[Hikaru Amano]

On 6/17/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/06/07, Kelly wrote:
> >
> > This isn't the first time this has happened, and I doubt it'll be the last.
> > It's a side effect of having to run multiple repositories...
> >
> > (When I was running FC5 a few months ago, this would happen pretty much every
> > update)
>
> It should always be "Fedora first, Livna second" when breaking
> dependencies in an update. A hierarchy of repositories.
>
> Fedora packagers and Livna packagers can try to coordinate their
> updates, but nevertheless Livna would usually rebuild packages against
> released Fedora updates (unless Livna started doing fragile things
> like building against Fedora Test Updates or the Fedora Extras
> needsign repo). In either case, there would be a window during which
> dependencies are broken until the two repos are in sync again. The
> window gets bigger when Livna releases an update in advance that
> breaks deps (e.g. the xine-lib-extras-nonfree in this thread), and
> when it takes an unknown time for Fedora rel-eng to release the
> corresponding update (e.g. (xine-lib).
>
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Would it be nice if theres a program that'll check dependency problems
and file conflicts across multiple repositories .. by checking the
repository metadatas perhaps ..

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