Bug 205628 - apr-utils needs postgresql
Summary: apr-utils needs postgresql
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: apr-util
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Joe Orton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-07 18:02 UTC by Christopher McCrory
Modified: 2008-12-18 12:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-12-18 12:51:37 UTC
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Description Christopher McCrory 2006-09-07 18:02:40 UTC
Description of problem:

apr-util needs postgresql libs

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

apr-util-1.2.7-3

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install apr-util
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Processing Dependency: libpq.so.4 for package: apr-util

Expected results:
NOT Processing Dependency: libpq.so.4 for package: apr-util


Additional info:

It does not make sense why apr would need postgresql

Comment 1 Bojan Smojver 2007-01-10 23:20:47 UTC
Actually, it does make sense. APU includes a PostgreSQL DBD driver, which needs
libraries to work.

This should be closed as not a bug.

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2007-01-10 23:29:20 UTC
This does need fixing.  I have a patch to do DBD-drivers-as-DSOs almost ready to
submit upstream.  That will allow splitting out the drivers into subpackages,
and so relaxing the deps chain a bit.

(this isn't likely to happen in the RHEL5 timescale unfortunately)

Comment 3 Bojan Smojver 2007-01-11 00:06:53 UTC
Cool.

Comment 4 Christopher McCrory 2007-01-11 01:42:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually, it does make sense. APU includes a PostgreSQL DBD driver, which needs
> libraries to work.
> 

yes, as far as it goes.

I think the bug is that to install apache (httpd) you should not need postgress
anything.




Comment 5 Joe Orton 2007-04-11 12:46:04 UTC
Is the specific concern here the fact that the libs get pulled in at run-time,
or simply the fact that the deps get pulled in at all.

The former is possible to fix - the latter is not really possible to fix in a
RHEL5 update, since it will be a compatibility break (albeit a minor one).  It
is fixed for FC7/future RHEL now.

Comment 6 Bojan Smojver 2008-12-01 23:08:45 UTC
Can we close this?

Comment 7 Joe Orton 2008-12-18 12:51:37 UTC
So, because we can't fix this in a RHEL5 update, since it would potentially break existing installations, marking as CLOSED->NEXTRELEASE since the fix in Fedora will be picked up in RHEL6.  Thanks for the report, in any case!


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