Bug 2259
| Summary: | rpm doesn't handle multiple versions of a library well | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marc MERLIN <marc_soft> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-04-20 19:28:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The complexity that would be introduced into rpm by your update enhancement request boggles my mind:-). Let's keep it simple: rpm -e ... rpm -i ... gets the job done and it's not like you need to type this more often than every other week or so :-) |
This isn't a bug, it's an enhancement request: moremagic [mc]# rpm -U slang-1.2.2-4.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libslang.so.0 is needed by timidity-0.2i-5 libslang.so.0 is needed by mutt-0.93.2i-1 moremagic [mc]# rpm -q slang slang-1.2.2-3 slang-0.99.38-4 I did purposely do a rpm -i on the new slang so that I could have both libraries at the same time. So, I'm currently forced to do the following: moremagic [mc]# rpm -e slang-1.2.2-3 --nodeps moremagic [mc]# rpm -i slang-1.2.2-4.i386.rpm It'd be nice if rpm could figure out that rpm -U slang-1.2.2-4.i386.rpm, really means to upgrade the package that also provides libslang.so.1, and leave alone the one that provides libslang.so.0