Bug 112876 - up2date miss-complains about depencies
Summary: up2date miss-complains about depencies
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 9
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Fanny Augustin
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-05 08:52 UTC by Stian Skjelstad
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-08-24 21:58:24 UTC
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Description Stian Skjelstad 2004-01-05 08:52:37 UTC
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Description of problem:
First some cut'n paste:

[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# up2date -u up2date

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
########################################

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################
All packages are currently up to date
[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# rpm -q up2date
up2date-3.1.23.2-1
[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# up2date -u

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9...
########################################

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
spamassassin-tools  2.61-1               requires
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator)
spamassassin-tools-2.61-1                requires
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 2.61-1

[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# rpm -qa|grep -i spamassassin
spamassassin-tools-2.61-1
spamassassin-2.61-1
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61-1
[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# rpmquery -q perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61-1
--provides
config(perl-Mail-SpamAssassin) = 2.61-1
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin) = 2.61
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::AuditMessage)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::AutoWhitelist)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::CmdLearn)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::ConfSourceSQL)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::DBBasedAddrList)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Dns)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMIME)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EncappedMessage)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::EvalTests)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::HTML)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::MailingList)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Message)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::NetSet)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::NoMailAudit)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgLearner)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::PersistentAddrList)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Received)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Replier)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Reporter)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::SHA1)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::TextCat)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::UnixLocker)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Util)  
perl(Mail::SpamAssassin::Win32Locker)  
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 2.61-1
[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# rpm -V spamassassin-tools-2.61-1
[root@dhcppc8 candela.no]# 


As you can see, up2date -u fails, with a dependency problem and
refuses then to do the upgrade. But when I check by hand, all
dependencies are present, and verifying that package does not fail. It
is just up2date that has problems.

These kinds of problem kan be a problem for servers that just has
their crontab or up2date running other methods and rely on them being
up to date with fixes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-3.1.23.2-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile the srpm of the spamassassin version 2.60-1 og 2.61-1
available on their homepage 
2. Install the resulting 3 rpms files you get
3. up2date -u
    

Actual Results:  See description

Expected Results:  See description

Additional info:

See description


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