setup with experimental libsolv-based dependency solving

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Oct 28 12:31:00 GMT 2017


On 10/27/2017 3:52 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/27/2017 2:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 10/25/2017 3:18 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>
>>> This has a lot of internal changes, so could use some wider testing. 
>>> Please test.
>>
>> I've just discovered a serious bug.  When installing from a local 
>> directory that either doesn't exist or isn't a valid repository, setup 
>> doesn't correctly read/write the installed file database 
>> (/etc/setup/installed.db).
> 
> I *think* the problem is that packagedb::read is never called.  Since 
> do_local_dir returns false, LocalDirPage::OnNext takes us directly to 
> the chooser.  This means that do_ini_thread never gets to the line that 
> calls db.read.

I just submitted two patches that seem to fix this.

Ken



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