Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219920
Installation of "mutt" pulls in package from "FE"
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:56:30 EST
Description of problem: After a fairly minimum install from the "rawhide" tree, I install "mutt" by means of "yum install mutt". By default, "FC" and "FE" repositories are enabled. After resolving dependencies, "yum" requires "exim" from "FE" to be installed as prerequisite of "mutt". Executing "rpm -e --test exim" after the install returns a message according to which "/usr/sbin/sendmail" is required by "mutt". A core package like "mutt" must not depend on a package from "FE". The dependency should have led to "yum" scheduling "sendmail" or "postfix" for install. Querying "rpm -qf /usr/sbin/sendmail" instead returns "exim-4.63-6.fc7". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc7 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform minimum install from the "rawhide" tree. 2. Install "mutt" mail client. Actual results: "yum" pulls in "exim-4.63-6.fc7" in order to provide "/usr/sbin/sendmail". Expected results: "yum" pulls in "sendmail-8.13.8-3.1" or an alternative package from "FC" that provides "/usr/sbin/sendmail". Additional info: None.
3 programs provide /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail postfix exim since yum has no way of knowing which of those is better, and no reason to care, it sorts them using the sort order it's been using for years - shortest package name. so exim wins.
(In reply to comment #1) > 3 programs provide /usr/sbin/sendmail "yum" should be smart enough to look in "FC" first instead of "FE" and optionally, in case that various alternatives exist, prompt the user to make a choice. Your point maybe right for packages within a single repository, but "FE" is an add-on repository which is by no means comparable to "FC".
The distinction between fedora extras and fedora core is dissolving in fedora 7. At which point this doesn't have much meaning.
*** Bug 220551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***