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Bug 1155971

Summary:	Circular dependency with util-linux
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Valentina Mukhamedzhanova <vmukhame>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	james.antill, ovasik, qe-baseos-daemons, squinney, vmukhame
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	1155963	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-06-03 11:24:41 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1155963
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Description Ondrej Vasik 2014-10-23 10:07:56 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1155963 +++
Description of problem:

There is a circular dependency between the coreutils and util-linux packages which seems to mean that they can be installed in the wrong order. When util-linux is installed first the post-install script for that package fails due to a lack of touch, chown, chmod and ln commands.

util-linux has:

Requires(post): coreutils

coreutils has:

Requires: util-linux >= 2.22.1-3

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

coreutils 8.22-11.el7
util-linux 2.23.2-16.el7

How reproducible:

I've only seen this when using the --installroot option for yum to create installs in alternative locations but I don't see any reason why this wouldn't affect normal systems as well.

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Cloning this one for investigation on yum side. I have never seen transactions failing because of this (and I'm quite sure reporter is right there). It looks like --installroot behaves differently from common installation transaction. If the difference is expected, no problem. Original issue can (and will) be solved on coreutils side, but still it would be good to check it as it might be more generic.