Re: [Synaptic-devel] Fwd: Re: [SLE] Synaptic 0.48.2-rb1 may not return RPM error messages

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:37:40PM -0400, Administrator wrote:
> Op vrijdag 7 mei 2004 00:12, schreef Administrator:
> > For this example, Synaptic displays its progress dialog with
> > the two bars moving together left to right and then stopping
> > about 1/3 of the way. Synaptic then reloads it indexes and
> > displays the packages selected for installation or removal.
> > (rpm -qv synaptic -> synaptic-0.48.2-rb1.) This type of error
> > has happened on Pro 9.0 thru -215 using KDE 3.1 & 3.2+
> >
> > rar_3.3.0-0.pm.1_i586.rpm is chosen. Synamptic adds
> > dependenciy a52dec_0.7.4-3.pm.0_i686.rpm and the removal of
> > the obsoleted unrar-3.2.2-36.
> >
> > By hand, rpm -iv a52dec_0.7.4-3.pm.0_i686.rpm gives error
> > message "warning: a52dec_0.7.4-3.pm.0_i686.rpm: V3 DSA
> > signature: NOKEY, key ID 5f6842a4," which must be what
> > Synaptic is quitting on.
> >
> > It's reasonable not to install the RPM but Synaptic should
> > show the errors. Am I overlooking something here?
> 
> Your analysis seems about right.  Please address this problem to
>  the synaptic developers address@hidden

Right, this is a problem that was reported some weeks ago. I think I
can have a look at a suse system at university to check why synaptic
does not display any error message. I need the sources.list line that
contains the rar and a52dec packages so that I can reproduce the
problem. 

thanks for reporting this problem,
 Michael

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