Bug 677444

my repo files point at

[root@apollo ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/pki-x86_64.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel61-nightly.repo 
[cs9-x86_64]
name=cs9-x86_64
baseurl=http://mickey.dsdev.sjc.redhat.com/repos/pki/ipa/devel/rhel6/devel_x86_64/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0


[cs9-noarch]
name=cs9-noarch
baseurl=http://mickey.dsdev.sjc.redhat.com/repos/pki/ipa/devel/rhel6/devel_x86_64/noarch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[rhel61-nightly]
name=rhel61-nightly
baseurl=http://download.devel.redhat.com/nightly/latest-RHEL6.1/6.1/Server/x86_64/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

On February 15, 2011, Parag Nemade wrote:

Hi Matt,
    This is a well known problem with RHEL6. Most people forgot to add optional repository on their system. I always suggest developers to make sure they also have optional repository added so that -devel or less required dependency packages will also get pulled.
    Real problem is that pki-setup needs "perl-XML-LibXML" to be pulled automatically which is happening correctly but "perl-XML-LibXML" needs "perl-XML-SAX" which is not found in the available repositories. I will suggest to ask rel-eng to move this "perl-XML-SAX" from optional to base repository.
    And yes its still recommended that yum should pull dependencies automatically. If rpm unable to extract dependencies while building a new package then only you need to add it explicitly in spec file.

Parag.



On 02/16/2011 04:48 AM, Matthew Harmsen wrote:
> Parag,
>
> This is a question in regards to "Bugzilla Bug #677444 - pkiremove throws error" on RHEL 6.1.
>
> We believe that this occurred since "perl-XML-SAX" was not pulled in as a requirement.
>
> It is true that our spec files did not include this module (nor virtually any other Perl module)
> explicitly because of the original Fedora Review in late 2009/early 2010 in which you explained
> that there was an automated mechanism which pulled in Perl modules, (although I believe that
> I did need to explicitly include a Perl module on Fedora in the past).
>
> My question to you, is this -- is this automated means of pulling in Perl modules present in
> RHEL 6.1?
>
> Obviously, if the answer is no, we simply need to add explicit calls to all Perl modules using the
> "%if 0%{rhel}" test to our spec files.
>
> If the answer is yes, could it somehow mean that this is only for build-time Perl modules rather than
> run-time Perl modules, but if this is the case, why have we not encountered this issue in Fedora?
>
> Also, if the answer is yes, could you tell us what this automated Perl module requirement inclusion
> component is called?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Matt

(In reply to comment #4)
> On February 15, 2011, Parag Nemade wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
>     This is a well known problem with RHEL6. Most people forgot to add optional
> repository on their system. 

I tested by adding the optional repo to the system. No luck. 
Results here - http://pastehtml.com/view/1d9kwsx.rtxt

Chandra wrote the following:

<ckannan> So I re-installed the machine with RHEL 6.1 again. and I have subscribed to all the repos. 
<ckannan> At this time, I don't see any rpm issues.
<ckannan> And at this time, pkiremove works fine too. 
<ckannan> and for example, I see - http://download.lab.bos.redhat.com/nightly/latest-RHEL6.1/6.1/Server/x86_64/os/Packages/perl-XML-SAX-0.96-7.el6.noarch.rpm is the Base server repo.

Since it was discovered that the package called 'perl-XML-SAX' is currently in the base repo, double checking this per Comment #6 (after disabling the optional repo):

<ckannan> ok. I removed about 64 rpms that got installed as part of DS and pki packages. cleaned up all instances. disabled optional repo. and tried again. It installs just fine. 
<ckannan> So I would as well say everything that we need is in the base repo. optional is not required.