Bug 746384

Summary:	Redhat LSB version conflict with third party product
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Christian Reuss <christian.reuss>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Lawrence Lim <llim>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	5.6	CC:	tools-bugs, zpavlas
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Description Christian Reuss 2011-10-15 08:02:52 UTC

Description of problem:
When upgrading to RHEL 5.6 we get the following message

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
lsb-core-amd64 is needed by (installed) DoXiteLicenseServer-1.2.4-19891.x86_64
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%205&component=yum'])

During the upgrade the redhat-lsb packages would be upgraded to version 4.x but the third party product still needs version 3.x.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 5.6

How reproducible:
Upgrade a RHEL 5.5 system to a newer release while the third party product is installed

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install third party product (http://www.detec.de/en/produkte/ueberblick/doxite/sap3.html)
2. Upgrade to RHEL 5.6
3.
  
Actual results:
Error message during yum dependency check (see above)

Expected results:
Error occures

Additional info:

Comment 1 Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-03-22 14:56:30 UTC

This is a bug in Yum depsolver, it does not recheck versioned requires of installed packages.  This is already fixed in newer Yum (shows an error during depsolving, offers --skip-broken).  However, we do not plan backporting this feature.  The only benefit is a better error message, and the backport might be quite large and intrusive,