Bug 238826

Summary: Package obsoletes itself which crashes yum
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Hardware Certification Program Reporter: Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component: Test Suite (harness)Assignee: Greg Nichols <gnichols>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5CC: tao
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0736 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-02 16:30:44 UTC Type: ---
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Description Flags
R32 rpmlint output
none
R45 rpmlint output none

Description Martin Poole 2007-05-03 07:28:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

Attemping to to install the hardware test suite via yum fails with a recursion
limit traceback.

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

hts-5.0-31.noarch

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe a RHEL5 machine to hardware cert channel
2. "yum install hts"
3.
  
Actual results:

yum crashes with recursion limit reached.

Expected results:

package installation

Additional info:

spec file specifies the package obsoletes itself, this is redundant and causes
the yum crash.
Comment 1 Greg Nichols 2007-05-03 13:20:41 UTC 
Fixed R45
Comment 3 Greg Nichols 2007-05-03 15:30:02 UTC 
Created attachment 154039 [details]
R32 rpmlint output
Comment 4 Greg Nichols 2007-05-03 15:31:23 UTC 
Created attachment 154040 [details]
R45 rpmlint output
Comment 5 Greg Nichols 2007-05-03 16:31:31 UTC 
Other R45 rpmlint errors fixed in R46.
Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-08-02 16:30:44 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0736.html