Bug 58927

Errhhh... To be honest, no clue what the problem here is. Seems as if for some
odd reason rpm and/or the ucd-snmp package seem to have picked up something
wrong here.

I've updated the ucd-snmp package to the latest 4.2.3 release in rawhide. Could
you give that one a shot?

Thanks,

Read ya, Phil

Both ftp://rawhide.redhat.com and ftp://ftp.beta.redhat.com in rawhide
have only version ucd-snmp-4.2.1-7 from September so trying 4.2.3 is for
me a bit difficult.  Maybe you can get some sort of synchronization working
one day?  'rsync' from cron should do just fine.

But I attempted 'rpm -Uvh --oldpackage ucd-snmp-4.2.1-4.7.x.i386.rpm' on
a system with RH 7.2 installation where I can run all kinds of test and got:
error: failed dependencies:
	librpmio.so.0   is needed by ucd-snmp-4.2.1-4.7.x
	librpm.so.0   is needed by ucd-snmp-4.2.1-4.7.x
There at least this is legitimate as corresponding libraries are 
'librpm-4.0.3.so' and 'librpmio-4.0.3.so'.  But this also likely means that 
testing a package from a rawhide will not tell very much about something
meant for RH 7.1.

There is a new errata release out now, also for 7.1. If you could try out that
one i'd greately appreciate it.

I still have a hard time figuring out how you got this problem. I simply can't
reproduce it here and updating works fine for me.

Strange.

Read ya, Phil

PS: Could you run a rpm -q --whatprovides librpm.so.0 on that machine?

Ah, I think that I know what solves that mystery.  As far as I see
'rpm' on a "normal" 7.1 installation should be rpm-4.0.2-8.  On the
box in question I have rpm-4.0.3-0.91.  Don't ask me why as I do not
know this box history and have not a clue when and what for it was
replaced.  Watch this:

# rpm --test -Uvh ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1.7.1.3.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	librpmio.so.0   is needed by ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1.7.1.3
	librpm.so.0   is needed by ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1.7.1.3
# rpm -q --whatprovides librpmio.so.0
no package provides librpmio.so.0
# rpm -q --whatprovides librpm.so.0  
no package provides librpm.so.0
# locate librpmio.    
/usr/lib/librpmio.a
/usr/lib/librpmio.la
/usr/lib/librpmio.so
# rpm -qf /usr/lib/librpmio.so
rpm-devel-4.0.3-0.91
# rpm -q --provides rpm-devel-4.0.3-0.91
rpm-devel = 4.0.3-0.91
# rpm -q --whatprovides librpm.so
no package provides librpm.so
# locate librpmio-
/usr/lib/librpmio-4.0.3.so

Ugh! Sorry for the mess.

OK, so this is NOTABUG, right? Because then i can close this one as such. :-)

Read ya, Phil

Yes, I think that is hard to classify otherwise with this little gnawing
doubt why 'ucd-snmp' has to have dependencies on some internals of a particular
rpm package?  What would happen if one would _have_ to change an rpm
version for whatever reasons?  Maybe they were indeed legitimate?
Recompile because rpm package changed?

The whole thing is not an issue in that sense that the box in question
actually _does not need_ this ucd-snmp in the first place and it was obviously
installed there (not anymore) by some misguided soul.  But somebody else
may run into it in a serious way.

True, but then they should be able to find the problem by searching bugzilla
again or may open a new one which i can the directly close as a duplicate of
this one.

Closing this bug now as NOTABUG.

Thanks,

Read ya, Phil