Retired

Reason for Retirement: Please confirm if this is still a problem in the latest
version of Smart.

Please reopen this issue in the new bugtracker if it is still an issue.
New Bugtracker : http://bugs.launchpad.net/smart
further details:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration.

I will try and get together my complete list of problem packages next week.  The
temporary fix was to lock this subset, but that is obviously not an optimal
solution.  Short instructions:

- install system
- install smart and smart upgrade --update
- 'cat <filelistingpackages> | xargs smart install --yes'
- run the above again and again

Try it with all currently installed packages, which should be a NOOP except for
the warning messages about already installed packages.

You need to give complete directions on how to reproduce the problem, or even
the output you get when trying. I can't see how Smart could fail unless you give
more info.

This issue is happening on multiple systems, primarily SuSE 9.2 and 9.3.  When
passed a list of packages (using 'cat <file listing packages> | xargs smart
install <misc options>', the documented behaviour should be for smart to return
that already installed packages are installed, and to install uninstalled
packages.  This works for most packages, but some subset are installed over and
over again regardless of their state.  This behavior is not 100% consistent, and
sometimes does not happen, with smart exiting without reinstalling anything.

Smart upgrade (with or without update) works fine on these systems, functioning
as advertised.

I'm attempting to build a concrete list of the subset of packages showing this
behaviour, but it is not consistent across machines (though some packages such
as xorg-x11-libs and lynx are common).

Machines in question are i386/x86 32 bit.

More info as needed...