[Rpm-maint] rpmtsOrder failed,

[Johnson, Richard]

Folks--

I've been having a bear of a time installing a suite of rpms where all dependencies are satisfied, only to fail in tsOrder.  I've tracked the error down to this snippet from lib/depends.c (nrescans is initially 10)

1388         /* If a relation was eliminated, then continue sorting. */
1389         /* XXX TODO: add control bit. */
1390         if (nzaps && nrescans-- > 0) {
1391             rpmlog(RPMLOG_DEBUG, "========== continuing tsort ...\n");
1392             goto rescan;
1393         }

Increasing the allowable rescans enables install to proceed.  This makes me wonder why rescans are limited in the first place.  My reading is that as long as nzaps!=0 progress was made and a rescan is appropriate.

Or could someone enlighten me otherwise?

Thanks,
--rich