Bug 130043

Summary: rhpl missing a requires: libxml2-python
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: David Lehman <dlehman>
Component: rhplAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description David Lehman 2004-08-16 19:01:38 UTC
Description of problem:
comps.py in rhpl needs libxml2-python, but it's not specified as a
dependency of rhpl

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhpl-0.110.2-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to import rhpl.comps on a clean RHEL3-U2 installation
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Actual results:
>>> import rhpl.comps
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/comps.py", line 5, in ?
    import libxml2
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named libxml2mod
>>>


Expected results:
>>> import rhpl.comps
>>>

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-08-16 20:35:04 UTC
rhpl is a catch-all package.  Things that are using rhpl need to know
what the dependencies of the modules they use are.  Otherwise, we
bloat things even more than they already are.