Bug 1551126

It is because nmh-1.6-14.fc27.x86_64 requires "/bin/vi"
and the new vim-minimal-8.0.1553.fc27.x86_64 now provides "/usr/bin/vi"
instead of "/bin/vi" like it used to do.

Maybe the solution is to have a new nmh package that requires "/usr/bin/vi" ?

BTW: I'm totally dependent on nmh !!  :-)

A package update fails because of this problem:

verdi /home/robn 4 # dnf --refresh update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Mon Mar  5 07:17:28 2018.
Dependencies resolved.

 Problem: package nmh-1.6-14.fc27.x86_64 requires /bin/vi, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both vim-minimal-2:8.0.1553-1.fc27.x86_64 and vim-minimal-2:8.0.1176-1.fc27.x86_64
  - cannot install both vim-minimal-2:8.0.1176-1.fc27.x86_64 and vim-minimal-2:8.0.1553-1.fc27.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package vim-minimal-2:8.0.1176-1.fc27.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package nmh-1.6-14.fc27.x86_64
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 Package                         Arch                       Version                                  Repository                   Size
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Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
 vim-minimal                     x86_64                     2:8.0.1553-1.fc27                        updates                     540 k

Transaction Summary
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Nothing to do.
Complete!

Hi,

thank you for the report - all programs nowadays in Fedora are in /usr/bin (/bin is now only symlink to /usr/bin) - so I thought it is old "Provides:" and it is not used anymore (I apologize, I didn't check if something doesn't depend on it) so IMHO is is something to fix in nmh. Reassigning to nmh.

Hi David,

would you mind backporting the fix from master to f27 and f26 branches too?

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25504897 Rob, Doug, would you mind trying this scratch build until David prepares final fix?

nmh-1.7-3.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-881c05bb96

nmh-1.7-3.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0116a726e8

(In reply to Zdenek Dohnal from comment #5)
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25504897 Rob, Doug,
> would you mind trying this scratch build until David prepares final fix?

I downloaded and installed nmh-1.7-3.fc27.x86_64.rpm and it seems to work
fine.  The update of vim-minimal works now too.

But I only use the "rcvstore" command from nmh to deliver messages to my
nmh folders from procmail. This seems OK.  I don't know about the rest of nmh ..

One interesting thing I read in the recent nmh-1.7.1-RC3 announcement is:

    "This release candidate fixes a significant memory leak in scan(1) and 
     includes some minor fixes to the test suite."

So probably it will be wise to have an update to nmh-1.7.1 once it is released!

My bad:  it shouldn't have been 1.7.  I obsoleted that and am building 1.6 now.  1.7 was never pushed to Fedora updates.

Awaiting release of 1.7.3.

I meant, awaiting release of 1.7.1.

nmh-1.6-15.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-7e7f29fdd6

nmh-1.6-15.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ca3ff1ee8d

Hi Zdenek and everyone,

OK, I submitted f27 and f26 updates to nmh 1.6 to testing.  Just need +1 karma, if someone would oblige.

I don't see a way to re-assign this bug to me (par.packager).  If you can, that would be great.

Well, nmh-1.6-15.fc27 works fine for my (limited) use too!
I think a just gave a +1 karma (haven't used this before, found it a bit confusing .. :-)

David,

I think you can just click on (take) next to "Assigned to:". I have it there at least. But I can reassign it to you too.
I'll change the bugzilla name to correspond the actual issue.

nmh-1.6-15.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ca3ff1ee8d

nmh-1.6-15.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-7e7f29fdd6

(In reply to Zdenek Dohnal from comment #5)
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=25504897 Rob, Doug,
> would you mind trying this scratch build until David prepares final fix?

+1 from me too

nmh-1.6-15.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

nmh-1.6-15.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.