Bug 1425050 - System-config-firewall needs iptables-ipv6 package, which is not provided anymore
Summary: System-config-firewall needs iptables-ipv6 package, which is not provided any...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-firewall
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-20 12:50 UTC by Zdenek Dohnal
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:15:06 UTC
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Description Zdenek Dohnal 2017-02-20 12:50:03 UTC
Description of problem:
I got following message when I was trying to update iptables (release 1.6.0-3.fc25.x86_64):

Error: package system-config-firewall-base-1.2.29-12.fc21.noarch requires iptables-ipv6, but none of the providers can be installed                                                                               
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)

System-config-firewall requires package of iptables, which is no longer provided by iptables. Issue is solved by removing system-config-firewall. Would you mind updating s-c-f Requires:/BuildRequires: to do not need iptables-ipv6 package?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-firewall-1.2.29-12.fc21.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo dnf install <iptables_rpms_from_koji>

Actual results:
Error message mentioned above.

Expected results:
iptables should be installed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brian J. Murrell 2017-03-04 13:10:51 UTC
+1

Bug #1327786 needs to be reverted or fixed in some way.

Comment 2 Roy A. Gilmore 2017-03-05 17:53:40 UTC
Other packages besides system-config-firewall-base require iptables-ipv6, at least these other packages also have dependency on iptables-ipv6:

  shorewall-init-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  shorewall-lite-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  shorewall6-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  shorewall6-lite-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch

There may be others.

After dnf failed to upgrade iptables*, I downloaded the iptables*-1.6.0-3.fc25.x86_64 packages, and after comparing the file lists with the "old" iptables* packages, I decided to try to force an upgrade with "rpm -Uvh --nodeps iptables*.rpm". This seems to work, but, not surprisingly, after the upgrade, I get this:

  [nobody@nowhere ~]# dnf repoquery --unsatisfied
  Last metadata expiration check: 0:41:12 ago on Sun Mar  5 08:34:17 2017.
  nothing provides iptables-ipv6 needed by shorewall-init-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  nothing provides iptables-ipv6 needed by shorewall-lite-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  nothing provides iptables-ipv6 needed by shorewall6-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  nothing provides iptables-ipv6 needed by shorewall6-lite-5.0.14.1-1.fc25.noarch
  -- 8< -- Minus spurious kernel and kmod* dependency errors¹ -- 8< --

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1. Since Fedora removes old packages from the updates repo, there are usually errors for installed, but not current kernel and kmod* packages (i.e. "none of the providers can be installed") that can be ignored.

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