Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186306
Missing dependencies after install
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:27 EST
Description of problem: I have a little python script that I use to find the packages that have no other packages depending on them. This allows me to remove unwanted packages and their dependencies. Using this this with a number of different installs, I have found that not all the dependencies are being installed. After installing the needed package to resolve the problem, an rpm -e shows that the new package is indeed dependent on another package. Ones I have seem so far: The default install needed binutils, gettext, and gstreamer-tools to be installed for all dependencies to be met. An install with all boxes unchecked (pseudo-minimal) needed ghostscript-fonts. Another customized install with redhat-lsb selected in the installer needed over 30 packages when I removed and reinstalled with yum Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 5 released DVD / network install tree How reproducible: always, but different packages needed for different installs Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do an install 2. run 'python depys.py' script I attached Actual results: script fails until dependencies are met Expected results: A list of packages with no packages that depend on them Additional info:
Created attachment 126499 [details] python script to find packages with no depends
There is already a script in yum-utils to do this: package-cleanup --leaves you might want to check that out. It is probable that the deps are deliberately cut due to whiteout.
I tried package-cleanup --problems on a fresh default install. It came up with the same results as my script (binutils, openjade, gstreamer-tools).
What's the status of this in F7? Lots of stuff has changed on the anaconda side of things, comps, and package deps themselves.
I just did a default install of Fedora 7 test 2. Both my script and the package-cleanup utility ran without error. The bug appears to be fixed.