Bug 601724
Summary: | rpmreaper permanently reports that perl packages are broken, while they don't seem to be | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Petr Machata <pmachata> |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 12 | CC: | ffesti, jnovy, mlichvar, mnewsome, n3npq, pmatilai |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Last Closed: | 2010-09-30 17:42:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Petr Machata
2010-06-08 14:11:43 UTC
This is a problem in librpm or the perl packages. The packages have two requirements on rpmlib(VersionedDependencies), one is correctly marked with RPMSENSE_RPMLIB in flags, but the other isn't which means it won't be filtered out and rpmreaper will mark the package as broken because nothing provides rpmlib(VersionedDependencies). In F13 and later this seems to be fixed. Depending on the RPMSENSE_RPMLIB flag bit instead of just filtering all dependencies that start "rpmlib(" cannot be supported or maintained, largely because RPM is never upgraded and there are too many incompatibilities already released (like the one here you have reported). Fixed in F13 doesn't begin to really "fix" the issue. The rpmlib() dependencies without RPMSENSE_RPMLIB bit set come from using the internal dependency generator as an external dependency generator (how hilarious is that...?), which is what the dependency filtering macros do. Rpm >= 4.8.0 goes to some lengths to fix the issue but it's not really worth backporting to older versions (and rebuilding the affected packages): this problem with using "rpmdeps" for dependency extraction is as old as "rpmdeps" itself (including all RHEL < 6 etc), so anything wanting to work with rpm < 4.8.0 needs to just manually filter dependencies starting with "rpmlib(" (or ask rpm about them). |