Bug 530548
| Summary: | ghostscript-fonts which is required by ghostscript is not installed by anaconda. | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Martin Gracik <mgracik> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Alexander Todorov <atodorov> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5.4 | CC: | atodorov, borgan, ddumas, dmach, herrold, syeghiay, tao | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-11.1.2.198 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-03-30 08:02:10 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 365842 [details]
proposed patch
Has something recently changed with the requires between ghostscript and ghostscript-fonts? The reason this whiteout exists (and has existed since 2002, incidentally) is because there's some circular dependency such that ghostscript and ghostscript-fonts require each other. Is this no longer the case? Isn't it the case that ghostscript-fonts 'enhances' to the point of functionality on a standalone computer, but is not 'required' in the sense that a X fontserver might be used for the needed fonts, and that fontserver need not be on the local machine? -- Russ herrold Hi Chris, I can reproduce this issue even with RHEL5.0. So, it's not a recent change. On EL5.4, ghostscript depends on ghostscript-fonts, and ghostscript-fonts depends on ghostscript. This is not changed since 5.0. I think that this is a bug which anyone could not find for a long time. The following is a reasonable workflow, I think. 'printing' package group requires ghostscript. ghostscript requires ghostscript-fonts. And though ghostscript-fonts requires ghostscript, ghostscript is not installed because it's in the whiteout. In this case, after the installation, the dependency issue doesn't occur. And, that's what my patch does. It's not expected to install ghostscript only. Thanks! Masahiro This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Will be fixed in new anaconda version 11.1.2.198 with RHEL5.5-Server-20091227.0 build when "Printing support" is selected in GUI both ghostscript and ghostscript-fonts packages are installed. Moving to VERIFIED. 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 therefore 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-2010-0194.html |
Description of problem: When 'printing' package group is specified, ghostscript is installed, but ghostscript-fonts is not installed. The cause is that these are in the whiteout list of whiteout.py as below. ----------------------------------------- whiteout=""" ... ghostscript-fonts>ghostscript \ ----------------------------------------- This means that when ghostscript-fonts requires ghostscript, ghostsciprt is installed. But, when ghostscript requires ghostscript-fonts, it is ignored. Can you reverse the order of ghostscript and ghostscript-fonts? If those are reversed, when ghostscript requires ghostscript-fonts, ghostsciprt-fonts is installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This customer met this issue on RHEL5.3. But, I could reproduce this issue with RHEL5.4. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install with the package group 'printing' 2. please confirm that the ghostscript is installed, but the ghostscript-fonts is not installed. Actual results: ghostscript-fonts is not installed. Expected results: ghostscript-fonts is installed. Additional info: This was separated from BZ524237. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524237 > please be aware that the ongoing problems with snapshots/rollback at > Kreditwerk have highest management visibility. This affects rollbacks > as RHNS cannot roll back the system to an inconsistent state.