Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 150692
Rpm doesn't check kernel dependencies
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:06 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: I have a package (GFS-modules) which requires kernel = 2.4.21-29.EL If I don't have that kernel installed rpm still happily attempts to install GFS-modules and a scriptlet fails because it can't find the kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2.3-13 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get GFS & GFS-modules & perl-Net-Telnet (http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/dist/3.0E-gfs-U5/GFS/6.0.2.3-1/i686/GFS-6.0.2.3-1.i686.rpm & http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/dist/3.0E-gfs-U5/GFS/6.0.2.3-1/i686/GFS-modules-6.0.2.3-1.i686.rpm & http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/dist/3.0E-gfs-U2/perl-Net-Telnet/3.03-2/noarch/perl-Net-Telnet-3.03-2.noarch.rpm) 2. install perl-Net-Telnet 3. Make sure you don't have kernel 2.4.21-29.EL installed 4. rpm -qp --requires GFS-modules-6.0.2.3-1.i686.rpm (to see that it requires kernel = 2.4.21-29.EL) 5. Install GFS & GFS-modules Actual Results: Both GFS & GFS-modules install even though the dependency is not met. Expected Results: Rpm should fail to install GFS-modules because the proper kernel is not installed. Additional info:
Can you attach -vv output from the install? I'm pretty sure I know what the (packaging) problem is, but I need -vv output to confirm before suggesting what to do.
Created attachment 111820 [details] Output from rpm -ivv GFS-modules-* Output from rpm -ivv GFS-modules-*
This line indicates that the dependency is met: D: Requires: kernel = 2.4.21-29.EL YES (db provides) by an already installed package Provides: What is happening is that the kernel has a Provides: kernel = 2.4.21 (Note the missing Release:) Missing Release: in the provides is interpreted as All/any releases are provided. which matches your Requires: If you want *exactly* a kernel-2.4.21-29.EL package and nothing else will do, then you will need to express your Requires: differently. The easiest expression is to add a file dependency, like Requires: /lib/modules/2.4.21-29.EL or (alternatively) Requires: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-29.EL