bash 4.1 in build kills 11.2 opensuse system - prereq realine 6.1.001 missing

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#1

A friend was having multiple problems/crashes with Bash associated arrays and reported a bash bug. The maintainer of bash said it was fixed in 4.1

Bash 4.1 was located here: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=shells. Installed it. Bash was dead, and so was the entire system!

Googling found this solution (which also describes the error):
FS#18051 : [bash] 4.1.002-1 broke my system i686

readline 6.1.001 should have been a prereq to Bash 4.1. readline was upgraded and the system is operational.

How does a user tell the maintainer in the build service that readline 6.1.001 is a prereq to bash 4.1? Do these also get reported in novell bugzilla? It’s really a repository problem, not software?

Thank you.

#2

Are the maintainer’s contact details shown when you do a rpm -qi bash? Look at the Packager line.

#3

On 2010-07-09 19:35 GMT opensuseforumorg42 wrote:

> How does a user tell the maintainer in the build service that readline
> 6.1.001 is a prereq to bash 4.1? Do these also get reported in novell
> bugzilla? It’s really a repository problem, not software?

That’s a very good question.

You could write a bugzilla, but they might close it. Depends.

To get the maintainer, you need to use the command “osc” with some
magic options I don’t remember. And to use “osc” I’m not sure if you
need a build account too, or the novell account suffices.

This was asked recently in one of the mail lists, perhaps -project or
-factory.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))