[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004301]: pkgutil -u stops exits with unresolvable dependencies in the catalog

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4301 
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Reported By:                flod
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4301
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
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Date Submitted:             2010-02-23 04:49 CET
Last Modified:              2010-02-23 17:45 CET
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Summary:                    pkgutil -u stops exits with unresolvable
dependencies in the catalog
Description: 
If any of the installed packages has an unresolvable in the catalog,
pkgutil -u will exit with:
Package <name> not in catalog...exiting.

Systems can now only be updated manually with
pkgutil -u <package>
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 (0007509) bonivart (manager) - 2010-02-23 17:45
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4301#c7509 
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I think key here is what you're saying in (4), to produce a correct catalog
(and hopefully correct packages to go with it :-). The problem has been to
introduce modern ways of producing the catalog and quality checking of said
catalog. Finally, there seems to be some progress with quality checking at
least and my chkcat utility (from CSWpkgutilplus) is supposed to be used.
Unfortunately it only says warning about a missing dependency, it should
have error status and it's been fixed so running it with the -e (erroronly)
option on the current catalog clearly shows us our problem:

$ chkcat -e
/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.ftp.df.lth.se_pub_csw_current_i386_5.10 
ERROR! Dependency CSWpydistutils of package CSWpysetuptools is missing.

When I get this fixed version into service we will no longer produce
catalogs with these kinds of problems.