| Summary: |
circular obsoletes in RHEL Server 5.4 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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Reporter: |
Jim White <jswhite> |
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openib | Assignee: |
Doug Ledford <dledford> |
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CLOSED
DUPLICATE
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QA Contact: |
Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: |
medium
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| Priority: |
low
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| Version: |
5.4 | CC: |
atodorov, dgregor, james.antill, jhutar, jlaska, jlee23, philippe+bugzilla, pm-eus, pm-rhel, ralston, tis, tswan
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Clone Of:
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451638
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Last Closed:
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2009-11-20 20:48:54 UTC
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Problem: When updating a 5.4 system from RHN, we experience a circular dependency issue between three packages and their replacements. Details: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On one pass, three "openib" packages are updated: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running Transaction Installing : perftest 1/6 Installing : mstflint 2/6 Installing : tvflash 3/6 Erasing : openib-perftest 4/6 Erasing : openib-mstflint 5/6 Erasing : openib-tvflash 6/6 Installed: mstflint.x86_64 0:1.4-1.el5 perftest.x86_64 0:1.2-14.el5 tvflash.x86_64 0:0.9.0-2.el5 Replaced: openib-mstflint.x86_64 0:1.2-6.el5_1.1 openib-perftest.x86_64 0:1.2-6.el5_1.1 openib-tvflash.x86_64 0:0.9.2-6.el5_1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the next pass, this is reversed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running Transaction Installing : openib-tvflash 1/6 Installing : openib-mstflint 2/6 Installing : openib-perftest 3/6 Erasing : tvflash 4/6 Erasing : mstflint 5/6 Erasing : perftest 6/6 Installed: openib-mstflint.x86_64 0:1.2-6.el5_1.1 openib-perftest.x86_64 0:1.2-6.el5_1.1 openib-tvflash.x86_64 0:0.9.2-6.el5_1.1 Replaced: mstflint.x86_64 0:1.4-1.el5 perftest.x86_64 0:1.2-14.el5 tvflash.x86_64 0:0.9.0-2.el5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above cycle repeats on subsequent upgrade attempts.