Bug 110169
| Summary: | rpm fails to solve recursive dependencies | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | lucas dixon <lucasd> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-12-27 14:38:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Yup. rpm-4.2.1 requires Epoch: to be specified where
needed, and assumes Epoch: 0 if missing.
For example, the mplayer package has Epoch: 2 and carries
Provides: mplayer = 2:0.90-1.x
(Note the "2:" syntax for Epoch: in a dependency.)
Then the mencode package needs to write it's dependency
on mplayer as
Requires: mplayer = 2:0.90
rather than
Requires: mplayer = 0.90
There is a --promoteepoch CLI flag, and adding -vv will
show all occurences that need fixing.
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Description of problem: I just switched from RedHat9 to Fedora 1 Core, and had some trouble isnatlling rpms that worked fine on RedHat9. When using rpm to install mplayer (and all its components) which has recursive dependencies: mplayer-0.90-1 requires: mplayer-common = 0.90 and mplayer-common-0.90-1 requires mplayer = 0.90 In redhat 9, rpm was able to install these using "rpm -i" with both file names given, but in Fedura it complains that: error: Failed dependencies: mplayer-common = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-0.90-1 mplayer-common = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90-1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I'm using the default rpm from the Fedora 1 Core, which is version 4.2.1 How reproducible: very reproducable, do the following: download: mplayer-0.90-1 and mplayer-common-0.90-1 I think you can find them at: http://rpms.4t2.org/RPMS/x/RH8.0/i486/ then do a rpm -i *.rpm in the dir where the rpms were downloaded. Steps to Reproduce: 1. as above This also happens with other packages, with recursive deps it's as if its using the "--noorder" flag...? Actual results: error: Failed dependencies: mplayer-common = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-0.90-1 mplayer-common = 0.90 is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90-1 Expected results: successfull install of mplayer. Additional info: that should be all you need - can you let me know if there is a fix? at the moment I just force it using --nodeps, but this is ugly and dangerous.