Bug 1486733

Summary: Installing net-snmp-perl now pulls in 22 -devel packages
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hemsley>
Component: net-snmpAssignee: Josef Ridky <jridky>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Karel Srot <ksrot>
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Version: 7.4CC: jridky, ksrot, ovasik, pasteur, rcollet, vashirov
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Fixed In Version: net-snmp-5.7.2-29.el7 Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 17:55:42 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Trevor Hemsley 2017-08-30 12:26:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
Installation of net-snmp-perl now pulls in 22 -devel packages that are not wanted or required.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-28.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always since 7.4

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install net-snmp-perl
2. 
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Actual results:
Installs net-snmp-perl + umpty -devel packages that should not be present

Expected results:
On 7.3 this installs just net-snmp-perl and no -devel packages are included.

Additional info:
Problem caused by bz 1438875 where the comment was added "I am not sure whether it would be appreciated".

You are right, it's not! :-)

A better method would have been to move the required net-snmp-config* binaries out of the net-snmp-devel package and into one of the already installed packages or to move net-snmp-cert into the net-snmp-devel package so that users that require it will be the ones who get the unnecessary 22 -devel packages.
Comment 2 Josef Ridky 2017-08-31 07:57:21 UTC 
Created attachment 1320490 [details]
Patch of spec file

Solution of this issue could be move net-snmp-config from devel package to general (as in proposed patch file).

This change will avoid to install additional packages, which aren't required by net-snmp-python.
Comment 15 Remi Collet 2018-01-23 12:14:20 UTC 
This change breaks build of package relying to net-snmp-devel to provide net-snmp-config

configure: error: Could not find net-snmp-config binary. Please check your net-snmp installation.

Can you please change net-snmp-devel to require net-snmp ?
Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 17:55:42 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0956