Bug 187473

Summary:	perl-DBD-MySQL uninstallable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component:	perl-DBD-MySQL	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
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Version:	2.1	CC:	tao, tgl
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Description Bastien Nocera 2006-03-31 08:35:22 UTC

perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4

perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4 is uninstallable. It requires libmysqlclient.so.10
(which comes from RHEL4) when we only ship libmysqlclient.so.9 on RHEL 2.1:

perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4 deps:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/dependencies.pxt?pid=16785
mysqlclient9-3.23.22-8 provides:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/dependencies.pxt?pid=49124

Comment 5 Jason Vas Dias 2006-04-21 16:03:45 UTC

Actually, libmysqlclient.so.10 IS shipped as part of the 
RHEL-2.1 U6+ mysql-3.23.58-1.72.1 package (latest errata
release mysql-3.23.58-1.72.2). But the only 'mysqlclient*'
package shipped for RHEL-2.1 is mysqlclient9-3.23.22-8, 
presumably shipped only for compatibility purposes for 
existing clients linked against libmysqlclient.so.9 .

So, you need to install the 'mysql' RPM in order to
install the perl-DBD-MySQL-1.2216-4 RPM, and then it
installs and works fine .

Perhaps we should consider shipping a mysqlclient-* RPM,
which would contain only the libmysqlclient libraries -
but that's not what we have done.

Yes, perhaps the perl-DBD-MySQL RPM should specify 'Requires: mysql',
(it currently only specifies 'BuildRequires: mysql-devel') - but I 
don't think this problem warrants a RHEL-2.1 perl-DBD-MySQL respin -
there is an easy workaround (install the mysql- RPM).

Comment 6 Tom Lane 2006-04-21 17:30:08 UTC

The mysql RPM is the *correct* RPM for this, as it is exactly the client-side
part of mysql (the server is in mysql-server).  I concur this is NOTABUG.

I also concur with adding 'Requires: mysql' in future builds, though, just to
make it more clear what the package depends on.