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Bug 1212145 - python-requests package update fail
Summary: python-requests package update fail
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: python-requests
Version: 6.7
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Matej Stuchlik
QA Contact: Branislav Náter
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-15 16:04 UTC by Branislav Náter
Modified: 2016-02-01 02:16 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: python-requests-2.6.0-2.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-07-22 07:43:13 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2015:1418 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE new packages: python-requests and dependencies 2015-07-20 18:06:38 UTC

Description Branislav Náter 2015-04-15 16:04:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm trying to update python-requests but it fails (see Actual results). After failed update there is weird link in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ directory (see Additional info).

# ll -d chardet*
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 11:07 chardet
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   13 Apr 15 11:08 chardet;552e7ee0 -> ../../chardet

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-requests-2.6.0-1.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. installed older version of python requests (python-requests-2.3.0-2.el6eng.noarch)
2. yum update python-requests

Actual results:
<snip>
Downloading Packages:
python-requests-2.6.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm                                                         |  94 kB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Updating   : python-requests-2.6.0-1.el6.noarch                                                                 1/2 
Error unpacking rpm package python-requests-2.6.0-1.el6.noarch
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests/packages/chardet: cpio: rename
python-requests-2.3.0-2.el6eng.noarch was supposed to be removed but is not!
  Verifying  : python-requests-2.3.0-2.el6eng.noarch                                                              1/2 
  Verifying  : python-requests-2.6.0-1.el6.noarch                                                                 2/2 

Failed:
  python-requests.noarch 0:2.3.0-2.el6eng                     python-requests.noarch 0:2.6.0-1.el6                    

Complete!

Expected results:


Additional info:
RPM issue is described here: http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/rear-users/2011-February/000432.html
Comment 1 Matej Stuchlik 2015-04-15 16:11:24 UTC 
The issue here is that we replace a directory with a link during an update which RPM/cpio doesn't handle well, apparently. The links are there because python-requests bundles python-urllib3 and python-chardet, which are deleted during build and replaced with links to the respective system modules.
Comment 2 Matej Stuchlik 2015-04-15 16:13:09 UTC 
(In reply to Matej Stuchlik from comment #1)
> The issue here is that we replace a directory with a link during an update
> which RPM/cpio doesn't handle well, apparently.

This also means this bug does not trigger when the packages is either installed anew, or when it is updated from python-requests 1.1.0 (this version does not ship the bundled modules).
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 07:43:13 UTC 
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.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-1418.html
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