Bug 211615

Summary: Dep loop between pam and coreutils
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Olin Oden <james.oden>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Change coreutils spec to produce coreutils-su
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Fixed to include pam dep in the sub package with new name coreutils-pam none

Description James Olin Oden 2006-10-20 14:18:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
pam and coreutils have a dependency loop amongst themselves.  Pam requires the 
use of certain coreutils binaries in its scriptlets, and the coreutils su 
command links to libpam and libpam_misc.  Presently this is worked around via 
dep whitout.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.2.1-31.2

How reproducible:
Its always there.

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Additional info:
Its easy enough to really break this loop by putting su in a subpackage (call 
it coreutils-su).  I will attach a patch to the spec file to this end.
Comment 1 James Olin Oden 2006-10-20 14:18:03 UTC 
Created attachment 138975 [details]
Change coreutils spec to produce coreutils-su
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2006-10-20 14:32:09 UTC 
Thanks for the report and the patch.  I'm changing the product and version of
this to Fedora Core devel -- we don't normally break out subpackages during a
support cycle.

I think any sub-package made for this reason ought to be called 'coreutils-pam'
in case there other other pam-using utilities in future.
Comment 3 James Olin Oden 2006-10-20 14:51:30 UTC 
Sound like a good name and sound reasoning.  Yeah, and you could say something 
to that effect in the description (which btw, I forgot to change the 
description of the sub-package in my patch from the place I was cutting and 
pasting from). 

Thanks again...james
Comment 4 James Olin Oden 2006-10-20 15:04:24 UTC 
Created attachment 138985 [details]
Fixed to include pam dep in the sub package with new name coreutils-pam

OK, missed a manual dep on pam.  BTW, I think we could completely get rid of
the manual dep as it will be picked up automatically by RPM due to su linking
against libpam.
Comment 5 James Olin Oden 2006-10-20 15:08:58 UTC 
BTW, once this patch is in place, anconda's Whitout.py file can have the 
pam>coreutils whiteout line removed.  Which was my motivation in RHEL 4 (long 
story, be happy to tell outside of bugzilla).
Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2007-01-18 15:58:36 UTC 
Er.. did you test this patch?  There seem to be several problems with it.
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2007-04-16 17:13:14 UTC 
No response; closing.