Bug 731815

Summary:	libnih and yum do not like each other anymore
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	libnih	Assignee:	Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	cdahlin, collura, ejsheldrake, plautrba, sergei.litvinenko
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2011-08-18 18:52:14 UTC

Description of problem:

With the current rawhide an attempt 'yum install libnih.x86_64' ends up with:

Downloading Packages:
libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64.rpm                              | 137 kB     00:00     
Running Transaction Check
ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) is needed by libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64
Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report

That does not look like a yum error as
'rpm -i --test libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64.rpm' reports too:

error: Failed dependencies:
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) is needed by libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64

By the same token a presence of libnih blocks attempts to update to
glibc-2.14.90-5 packages while this was not a problem with glibc-2.14.90-4.
OTOH 'rawhide report: 20110818 changes' does not seem to list any relevant broken dependencies.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15
glibc-2.14.90-5

Additional information:
Maybe yum should really notice in the earlier stage that a transaction will fail?  I really cannot tell what glibc _should_ provide.

Comment 1 Casey Dahlin 2011-08-18 18:57:52 UTC

libnih probably needs a rebuild. In fact it hasn't even been rebased in awhile since its only user was Upstart, which systemd replaced. I'll move it ahead.

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2011-08-18 19:08:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> libnih probably needs a rebuild. In fact it hasn't even been rebased in awhile
> since its only user was Upstart, which systemd replaced. I'll move it ahead.

If there are no users then maybe it is not needed anymore?

I was rather scratching my head why apparently nothing reported broken dependencies in advance.

Comment 3 Casey Dahlin 2011-08-18 19:11:40 UTC

Petr was maintaining upstart as an ongoing curiosity. I'm not sure if he stopped.

Comment 4 collura 2011-09-10 00:58:49 UTC

just noticed this when was running updates with 'software management' interface on f15 kde machine and got the following message when tried updates of glibc:

   'libnih-1.0.2-4.fc15.x86_64 requires libc.so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)(64bit) : Success - empty transaction'

Comment 5 collura 2011-09-10 02:35:51 UTC

hmm the glibc updates just installed on a f15-gnome machine and had no problem...

lol, kde strikes again

Comment 6 Edward Sheldrake 2011-09-11 08:46:49 UTC

libnih.spec (and nss_db.spec and any others) set _filter_GLIBC_PRIVATE - but they should set __filter_GLIBC_PRIVATE to filter out the GLIBC_PRIVATE dependencies.

Comment 7 Petr Lautrbach 2011-11-07 14:30:36 UTC

*** Bug 743996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2011-11-07 15:05:55 UTC

libnih-1.0.2-5.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libnih-1.0.2-5.fc16

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2011-11-10 17:27:12 UTC

Package libnih-1.0.2-5.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libnih-1.0.2-5.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15575
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2011-11-19 06:03:14 UTC

libnih-1.0.2-5.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.