Bug 104127

Summary:	dubious Obsoletes forces "update" to older package
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ronan Waide <waider>
Component:	xscreensaver	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description Ronan Waide 2003-09-10 09:25:29 UTC

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Description of problem:
The "Obsoletes" field in xscreensaver specifies that it obsoletes
xscreensaver-gl regardless of version, presumably since the GL screensavers are
now included with the xscreensaver package. The upstream source, however, still
splits the GL screensavers out separately. The net result of this is that if the
upstream version is installed from its default RPMS:

Waider (qaz) $ > rpm -qa xscreensaver\*
xscreensaver-4.12-1
xscreensaver-gl-4.12-1

up2date wants to downgrade back to 4.07-2 because of the "obsolete"
xscreensaver-gl package:

Waider (qaz) $ > up2date --list

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
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Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel     
----------------------------------------------------------
xscreensaver                            4.07           2                   

The following Packages are obsoleted by newer packages:

Name-Version-Release        obsoleted by      Name-Version-Release
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
xscreensaver-gl-4.12-1                  xscreensaver-4.07-2                     


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.07-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build xscreensaver 4.12 or better from upstream source
2. Run up2date --list

Actual Results:  up2date insists that an older version of xscreensaver needs to
be installed (NB, it is not able to install it /because/ it's an older version)

Expected Results:  up2date should list the system as fully up-to-date

Additional info:
This may be a bug in up2date rather than xscreensaver's packaging. I have not
checked to see if changing the Obsoletes tag to "xscreensaver-gl < 4.07-2" or
similar fixes the problem (nor do I know if this is possible)

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2004-08-29 21:07:17 UTC

I did some digging, and the official xscreensaver homepage does not
have any RPMS of their own.  This is not a serious problem.