From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030406 Description of problem: Preface: My Red Hat installation contains few non-redhat components. Despite that I feel that this is a bug in up2date user interface. System: Redhat 7.3 with non-RedHat originating Mozilla 1.3 installation Problem: When attempting to run up2date, the system prints out mozilla-related dependency conflict information. The conflict itself is not a problem since it is related to a non-RedHat rpm. The problem is that up2date does not report which package is triggering the situation. Correct behaviour in my personal opinion: up2date should also indicate the name of the package that causes a dependency conflict to show up. --- Data of this particular case: "sudo up2date -u --nox" prints prints out the following: Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... Fetching rpm headers... Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... There was a package dependency problem. The message was: To solve all dependencies for the RPMs you have selected, The following packages you have marked to exclude would have to be added to the set: Package Name Reason For Skipping ====================================================================== mozilla-nspr-1.0.2-2.7.3 Pkg name/pattern Unresolvable chain of dependencies: mozilla-1.0.2-2.7.3 requires mozilla-nspr = 1.0.2-2.7.3 mozilla-chat-1.3-0_rh7 requires mozilla = 1.3-0_rh7 mozilla-devel-1.3-0_rh7 requires mozilla = 1.3-0_rh7 mozilla-js-debugger-1.3-0_rh7 requires mozilla = 1.3-0_rh7 mozilla-mail-1.3-0_rh7 requires mozilla = 1.3-0_rh7 mozilla-psm-1.3-0_rh7 requires mozilla = 1.3-0_rh7 --- In this particular case, the problem arises since up2date seems to attempt upgrading "galeon" -package. This piece of information is missing from the above printout. It can be obtained only by a "-vv" switch. (excerpt of "up2date -u --nox -vv" attached) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install redhat-7.3. with at least galeon-1.2.6 and mozilla 1.3 (probably you shall need src rpm's ). Make sure that no older versions of mozilla are present. 2. run up2date 3. observe the result Actual Results: up2date fails with dependency conflict. Conflict is related to Mozilla browser versions 1.0 and 1.3 only. Expected Results: up2date fails with dependency conflict. Conflict is related to Mozilla browser versions 1.0 and 1.3 AND galeon-1.2.6. Additional info: At least one of up2date-gnome-2.8.40-3.7.3 up2date-2.8.40-3.7.3 is involved. From a quick survey I got the impression that most people around me have at least few non-RedHat RPM's installed, usually since no redhat version of the desired sw was around. Naturally Red Hat is not responsible of those packages, but I feel that up2date should be able to report problems related to those in a bit better way.
Created attachment 94113 [details] excerpt of "up2date -u --nox -vv" output
Typo: Expected results -field of the bug report should say galeon-1.2.11 instead of galeon-1.2.6.
This can happen with Red Hat packages as well, in some odd cases, so not soley a third party package problem. I'll take a look at gathering the approriate info and presenting it. Any suggestions on what desired output should look like?
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I assume that this bug was waiting for a comment from me since the year 2003, and I was not aware of it - mail filtering problems ? At the moment I am not using Red Hat and hence cannot know if the bug remains. If the bug does not exist in new Fedora/RedHat releases, then this bug report should be closed.
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. If this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release, please open a new bug with the relevant information. Closing as CANTFIX.