1331662 – yum won't install an older kernel-devel package when it's a dependency

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Bug 1331662 - yum won't install an older kernel-devel package when it's a dependency

Summary: yum won't install an older kernel-devel package when it's a dependency

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	yum
Sub Component:
Version:	6.8
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Valentina Mukhamedzhanova
QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team
Docs Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:	1306142
Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-04-29 07:40 UTC by Eva Mrakova
Modified:	2017-12-06 12:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:	1306142
Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-12-06 12:16:04 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Description Eva Mrakova 2016-04-29 07:40:28 UTC

Also happens for yum-3.2.29-73.el6

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1306142 +++

Description of problem:

kernel-devel package is one of the packages which is allowed to install multiple version packages at the same time.

# yum -y install kernel-devel-3.10.0-123.el7
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:3.10.0-123.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================================================================================
 Package                          Arch                       Version                            Repository                                 Size
================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-devel                     x86_64                     3.10.0-123.el7                     a-rhel7-x86_64-2015_3                     8.9 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 8.9 M
Installed size: 34 M
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : kernel-devel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64                                                                                           1/1
  Verifying  : kernel-devel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64                                                                                           1/1

Installed:
  kernel-devel.x86_64 0:3.10.0-123.el7

Complete!

# rpm -q kernel-devel
kernel-devel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64

But, when it's required as a dependency of a package installation,
yum rejects to install kernel-devel package since the newer package is already installed. 

The customer's custom rpm depends on the old kernel-devel, and they want it to install kernel-devel upon dependency resolving in yum command.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install RHEL7.2 and confirm kernel-devel is installed.
2. configure RHEL7.1 yum repository
3. install a testa package I attached.

# yum install testa-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Actual results:
The older kernel-devel is not installed, though it's found as a dependency.
Because a newer kernel-devel is installed.

Expected results:
The older kernel-devel is installed to resolve the dependency without any error, even if a newer kernel-devel package is installed.

Additional info:

I will attach the testa package for testing, and proposed patch, which the customer verified.

...
--- Additional comment from Michal Domonkos on 2016-04-21 13:06:21 CEST ---

> Actual results:
> The older kernel-devel is not installed, though it's found as a dependency.
> Because a newer kernel-devel is installed.

This is the actual error message:

Transaction check error:
  package kernel-devel-3.10.0-326.el7.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64) is already installed
  package kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64) is already installed
  package kernel-devel-3.10.0-382.el7.x86_64 (which is newer than kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64) is already installed

Error Summary
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--- Additional comment from Michal Domonkos on 2016-04-21 13:10 CEST ---

Final el7 patch, also pushed upstream as commit afac6a760b97b7dd71c06c00a4716d3212f6884c

Masahiro, thank you!

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 12:16:04 UTC

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