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DescriptionChris Lalancette
2011-03-16 20:16:58 UTC
Created attachment 485827[details]
Failed upgrade of febootstrap-supermin-helper
Description of problem:
We temporarily carry the libguestfs 1.7.17 and febootstrap 2.11 RPMs for RHEL-6 in a custom repository. When trying to install oz on RHEL-6.0, a co-worker ran into a dependency problem which I believe is related to libguestfs. I'll attach a file which has the full output of the transaction, but what I think is happening is:
1) The custom repository has python-libguestfs as a requirement, which is not currently installed.
2) When it runs across this requirement, yum satisfies it by grabbing the latest version of python-libguestfs available, which is 1.7.17.
3) libguestfs version 1.2.7 (from RHEL-6.0) is currently installed, and because it is older than python-libguestfs 1.7.17, it is set to be updated.
4) Based on 3) febootstrap-supermin-helper 2.11 needs to be installed.
5) febootstrap 2.7 is already installed, and has some files that directly conflict with febootstrap-supermin-helper, causing the failure.
I think that the problem here is that febootstrap 2.11 depends on febootstrap-supermin-helper 2.11 (and not vice-versa), so the fact that febootstrap-supermin-helper gets set to be updated does not force febootstrap to be updated. In turn, I believe this is a dependency problem in libguestfs; it currently Requires: febootstrap-supermin-helper, but I think it should actually Require: febootstrap, which I think would clear this up.
Comment 2Richard W.M. Jones
2011-03-17 08:44:46 UTC
Gaah, stupid "yum".
libguestfs should depend on febootstrap-supermin-helper
(see bug 669839).
I think what needs to happen is that febootstrap-supermin-helper
should
Obsoletes: febootstrap < 2.11
(and perhaps Provides also?)
I'm going to have to test this. In the meantime I've
made this a duplicate (and reopened) bug 669839.
Comment 3Richard W.M. Jones
2011-03-17 08:44:56 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 669839 ***
Created attachment 485827 [details] Failed upgrade of febootstrap-supermin-helper Description of problem: We temporarily carry the libguestfs 1.7.17 and febootstrap 2.11 RPMs for RHEL-6 in a custom repository. When trying to install oz on RHEL-6.0, a co-worker ran into a dependency problem which I believe is related to libguestfs. I'll attach a file which has the full output of the transaction, but what I think is happening is: 1) The custom repository has python-libguestfs as a requirement, which is not currently installed. 2) When it runs across this requirement, yum satisfies it by grabbing the latest version of python-libguestfs available, which is 1.7.17. 3) libguestfs version 1.2.7 (from RHEL-6.0) is currently installed, and because it is older than python-libguestfs 1.7.17, it is set to be updated. 4) Based on 3) febootstrap-supermin-helper 2.11 needs to be installed. 5) febootstrap 2.7 is already installed, and has some files that directly conflict with febootstrap-supermin-helper, causing the failure. I think that the problem here is that febootstrap 2.11 depends on febootstrap-supermin-helper 2.11 (and not vice-versa), so the fact that febootstrap-supermin-helper gets set to be updated does not force febootstrap to be updated. In turn, I believe this is a dependency problem in libguestfs; it currently Requires: febootstrap-supermin-helper, but I think it should actually Require: febootstrap, which I think would clear this up.