Bug 14607

Summary: upgrade to rpm-4.0-0.56 from rpm-3.0.5-0.5 or rpm-3.0.4-0.48 failed
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Bernhard Ege <bme>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Bernhard Ege 2000-07-25 10:42:24 UTC 
Upgrading from rpm-3.0.5-0.5 to rpm-4.0-0.56 failed with the following
dependency problems:

rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-4.0-0.56
	rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by rpm-4.0-0.56

I added bzip2 to the upgrade, as well as a lot of rpm's that bzip would
breake and retried. I managed to remove all dependencies from the packages,
but ended up with these:

rpm -Uvh ImageMagick-* bzip2-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm rpm-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm
rpm-build-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm gnorpm-0.9-22.i386.rpm
chkfontpath-1.7.2-5.i386.rpm passwd-0.64.1-4.i386.rpm ucd-snmp-*
rpmfind-1.5-3.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by ImageMagick-5.2.2-4
	rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by ImageMagick-5.2.2-4
	rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by
ImageMagick-devel-5.2.2-4
	rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by
ImageMagick-devel-5.2.2-4
And so on...

I downgraded to rpm-3.0.4-0.48 and retried:

rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm 
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Would --nodeps be safe to use in the former case (wouldn't help in the
latter).
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-07-25 13:46:25 UTC 
The released rpm-3.0.5 knows how to satisy
	rpmlib(...)
feature dependencies, rpm-3.0.5-0.5 had not this functionality.

Adding --nodeps would probably permit upgrading rpm-3.0.5-0.5 ro rpm-4.0-0.56

Otherwise upgrade to rpm-3.0.5 packages
	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/3.0.x
in order to satsfy rpmlib(...) requirements.
Comment 2 Bernhard Ege 2000-07-26 07:49:44 UTC 
Upgraded to rpm-3.0.5-7.6x.i386.rpm (latest on
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-3.0.x/) and then upgraded further on to
rpm-4.0-0.56. The result is that rpm cannot see any installed packages:

"rpm -qa" results in nothing, no error, no packages. Querying a specific package
also results in nothing. My rpm database is still there as far as I can tell:

ls -l /var/lib/rpm
total 29577
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Jul 26 09:37 conflictsindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      5275648 Jul 26 09:37 fileindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Jul 26 09:37 groupindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        28672 Jul 26 09:37 nameindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     25519304 Jul 26 09:37 packages.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        90112 Jul 26 09:37 providesindex.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       180224 Jul 26 09:37 requiredby.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        16384 Jul 26 09:37 triggerindex.rpm

Something was not done by the rpm-4.0-0.56 post install script, but what might
that be?
Comment 3 Bernhard Ege 2000-07-26 11:33:05 UTC 
On an additional note, running rpm with -vv results in this:

rpm -vv -qa
D: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: closed  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages

Seems that rpm doesn't know the filenames of the rpm database files or that the
files weren't renamed to match?