Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com> writes:

> On Apr 14, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
>
>> På Mandag 14 april 2008 , 19:52:30 skrev Per Øyvind Karlsen:
>>> På Mandag 14 april 2008 , 18:50:07 skrev Per Øyvind Karlsen:
>>>> See attachment for more info, reproducer found at
>>>> ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/ media/ma
>>>> in /release/ .
>>>
>>> updated running with --rpmdsdebug
>>
>> grf, here's the correct one
>>
>
> Um, how was the drakxtools-curses-10.29-1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
> package produced?
>
> Every modern version of rpm attempts to insure that dependencies
> are pre-sorted so that binary, rather than linear, search can be used.
>
> Now I find that one of the packages in your segfault has unsorted  requires:

mandriva uses "%define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0" which
causes this behaviour.

afaik there's no real reason for mandriva using this setting