Bug 426143

Summary:	Obsolete packages sysklogd and util-linux marked as essential in rpmpriorities
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kevin Kofler <kevin>
Component:	apt	Assignee:	Axel Thimm <axel.thimm>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	herrold, lam, pmatilai
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Description Kevin Kofler 2007-12-18 19:36:30 UTC

Description of problem:
apt-get dist-upgrade from F7 to F8 fails with:
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  rsyslog: Obsoletes: sysklogd (< 1.4.3-1)
  util-linux-ng: Obsoletes: util-linux (< 2.13.1)
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by 
held packages.
(I updated apt to the F8 version first.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try upgrading an F7 system to F8 with apt-get dist-upgrade.
  
Actual results:
Error, see above.

Expected results:
No error.

Additional info:
Changing sysklogd to rsyslog and util-linux to util-linux-ng 
in /etc/apt/rpmpriorities fixes this.

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2008-01-12 09:51:35 UTC

Fixed in rawhide version now...

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2008-01-15 18:41:45 UTC

*** Bug 428858 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2008-04-26 16:32:29 UTC

This hasn't been fixed in F8 though. :-(

While cleaning up the list for F9, I noticed there's some more obsolete 
packages listed there, I'm going to file a new bug for F9 with the updated 
list, though for F8 the list has to be yet again different. I wonder if we 
shouldn't drop the notion of "essential" packages entirely, Fedora changes its 
base system too often for that to be useful.

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Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2008-11-26 10:43:45 UTC

The rpmpriorities are still the same, now even more obsolete, in F9 and F10. But I already filed another bug about that, so let's close this one as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444287 ***