Bug 102677
| Summary: | rpm refuses to manage dependencies correctly | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-20 16:37:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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What happens if you add --promoteepoch when installing? You mean when installing the rpm or when installing the mozilla package? mozilla, the problem you reported. Yes, using rpm with --promoteepoch helps.
[root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-nspr-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
mozilla-nspr = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft
[root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh --promoteepoch mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm
mozilla-nspr-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:mozilla-nspr ########################################### [ 50%]
2:mozilla ########################################### [100%]
[root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-nss-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm
galeon-1.2.10-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
mozilla-nspr = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by mozilla-nss-1.3-0_rh8_xft
mozilla = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by galeon-1.2.10-1
[root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh --promoteepoch mozilla-nss-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm
galeon-1.2.10-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:galeon ########################################### [ 50%]
2:mozilla-nss ########################################### [100%]
Is this the expected behaviour (meaning I'll have to use it from now on),
or is it a bug in mozilla or rpm package?
Thanks.
OK, then this is expected behavior. rpm-4.2.1 is treating missing
Epoch: in dependency comparisons as identical to Epoch: 0.
Certain packages have had broken dependencies for years, all now fixed in
the latest beta.
So your choices when using rpm-4.2.1 to install mixtures of fixed and broken
packages when you encounter a problem are
a) use --promoteepoch to revert the behavior
b) look for a later version with corrected dependencies in Raw Hide.
Thanks. The trouble with the latest mozillas in Raw Hide is that there doesn't seem to be any correcponding galeon. But I think new bug will be needed for that. Thank you. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.10 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: After I upgraded to rpm-4.2.1-0.30 from rawhide, I was no longer able to reinstall mozilla without noise about failed dependencies. I have even run rpm --rebuilddb but to no avail. Downgrade of rpm to rpm-4.2-0.69 from Red Hat Linux 9 distribution made it possible to work with the rpm again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2.1-0.30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install rpm 4.2.1-0.30 2. try to work with some packages that have dependencies Actual Results: [root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: mozilla-nspr = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft libnspr4.so is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft libplc4.so is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft libplds4.so is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft [root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: mozilla-nspr = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft [root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-nspr-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:mozilla-nspr ########################################### [100%] [root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: mozilla-nspr = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft [root@charybda tmp]# rpm -qa | grep mozilla mozilla-nspr-1.3-0_rh8_xft [root@charybda tmp]# rpm --rebuilddb [root@charybda tmp]# rpm -Uvh mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: mozilla-nspr = 1.3-0_rh8_xft is needed by mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_xft Expected Results: The mozilla packages should have installed seamlessly. Additional info: