Bug 511033
| Summary: | Yum update would not recognize newest version of 3 installed programs | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Markus Isler, Ph.D. <markus.isler> | ||||
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.4 | CC: | james.antill, markus.isler | ||||
| Target Milestone: | beta | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-03-12 20:40:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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openib-mstflint-1.2-6.el5_1.1 replacing mstflint-1.4-1.el5 [...] AND VICE-VERSA Expected results: that "yum" would recognize the apparently newer version number ...no, that's not how it works, openib-mstflint and mstflint are different packages so there is no valid way to compare version numbers. I assume they are obsoleting each other? IIRC this isn't a regression, this happens with 3.2.18-19 (and also with 3.2.8, or it dies in weird ways) ... can you confirm (yum downgrade yum). The obvious way to fix this is to break the obsoletes loop, there are a couple of options the most obviuos/recommended is using versioned obsoletes only (Ie. Obsoletes: foo < 1.2.3). |
Created attachment 351461 [details] screenshot of yum update error output Description of problem: yum update eternal cycle problem Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):3.2.23-0 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. updated to redhat-5.4-beta 2. yum update 3. openib-mstflint-1.2-6.el5_1.1 replacing mstflint-1.4-1.el5, openib-perftest-1.2-6.el5_1.1 replacing perftest-1.2-14.el5, and tvflash-0.9.0-2.el5 replacing openib-tvflash-0.9.2-8.el5_2, AND VICE-VERSA Actual results: independent of which of the above versions is installed, it would always replace each other when running a simple "yum update" Expected results: that "yum" would recognize the apparently newer version number Additional info: uname -r : 2.6.18-155.el5 x86_64, cat /etc/*release: RHE Linux Client release 5.4 Beta (Tikanga); also, rhn-profile-sync would not update my system-profile in a way that the automatic eMailer for updates (RHN Errata Alert) would register it (i.e. recent kernel update already installed).