Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 141306
missing rpm dependencies on many python packages
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:50:47 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: many python packages (for instance, yum) install files in /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages. if either the python package is updated, or the package which installed files into /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages is updated, things stop working immediately because the python sys.path no longer includes the site-packages directory. clearly, if a package installs things into python2.x/site-packages, it should require python-2.x in its rpm dependencies Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.11-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start with fedora core 3 2. add the fc-devel repository 3. yum update yum 4. yum list recent Note: using yum as an example, but probably many other python packages suffer from the problem. Actual Results: yum breaks with failures to import its own modules Expected Results: yum works Additional info: marking as high priority, since the method to fix the problem (running yum) is broken by the bug...
(reassigning to distribution as this really needs to be solved generically for everything and not just in yum)
Jeff had mentioned implementing this in find-requires at one point, unless I misheard.
Nope, you heard correct. Getting there, I want to hand off all the python macros to python-devel same time ...
Changes to emit Requires: python(abi) = 2.4 are in rpm CVS, should be in rpm-4.3.3-8 when built.
*** Bug 139840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
python-2.4-2 and rpm-4.3.3-8 adds Requires: python(abi) = 2.4 to every package that contains /usr/lib*/python2.4 Note that it will take a while to deploy this fix, because every python package will need to be rebuilt in order for the change to take effect. Please report bugs against individual packages, as rpm can only rebuild as fast as its is invoked.