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Description of problem:

Removing xorg-x11-font-utils via "rpm -e" or "yum erase" succeeds even though ghostscript-fonts is installed.  This causes error messages like the following to be displayed when performing yum operations:

** Found 1 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.1.el6.noarch has missing requires of xorg-x11-font-utils

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

rpm-4.8.0-37.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  yum install ghostscript-fonts
2.  rpm -q --requires ghostscript-fonts
3.  rpm -e xorg-x11-font-utils

Actual results:

Step 3 above succeeds without error

Expected results:

error: Failed dependencies:
        xorg-x11-font-utils is needed by (installed) ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.1.el6.noarch

Additional info:

Note that "yum install ghostscript-fonts" *does* pull in xorg-x11-font-utils correctly.

[pmatilai@localhost tmp]$ rpm -qpv --requires ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.1.el6.noarch.rpm 
post,interp: /bin/sh
postun,interp: /bin/sh
manual: fontconfig
post: fontconfig
postun: fontconfig
rpmlib: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib: rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
post: xorg-x11-font-utils
rpmlib: rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

Note "post" on the xorg-x11-font-utils dependency. This means the package only requires xorg-x11-font-utils during the execution of %post script, and after that it can be legally removed (altough an upgrade of ghostscript-fonts would install it again)

Yum is wrong to complain, changing component. This is the same as bug 785690 which has been fixed upstream and in Fedora.

Created attachment 898017 [details]
patch to apply

Yes, that's correct.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1410.html