Bug 429041 - missing dependency
Summary: missing dependency
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 428847
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glib2
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-16 23:03 UTC by Steven Pritchard
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-05 20:25:31 UTC
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Description Steven Pritchard 2008-01-16 23:03:54 UTC
Description of problem:

"yum --enablerepo=development update yum\* rpm\*" on Fedora 8 gives you a broken
yum.  Trying to run it gives the following error:

  There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
  required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
  
     /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so: undefined symbol:
g_assertion_message_expr
  
  Please install a package which provides this module, or
  verify that the module is installed correctly.
  
  It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
  current version of Python, which is:
  2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 30 2007, 13:45:26) 
  [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)]
  
  If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to 
  the yum faq at:
    http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/_sqlitecache.so is owned by
yum-metadata-parser, so I'm assuming it should have a dependency on something in
the newer version of python in rawhide.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 rpm                     x86_64     4.4.2.2-12.fc9   development       1.2 M
 rpm-libs                x86_64     4.4.2.2-12.fc9   development       922 k
 rpm-python              x86_64     4.4.2.2-12.fc9   development        65 k
 yum                     noarch     3.2.8-2.fc9      development       509 k
 yum-metadata-parser     x86_64     1.1.2-4.fc9      development        26 k

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 8.
2. yum --enablerepo=development update yum\* rpm\*

Actual results:
Above error.

Expected results:
Working yum.  :-)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Todd Denniston 2008-01-24 14:32:16 UTC
This problem still affects yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-5, at least on i386.

I don't know if this helps tracking down what is broken, but a _work_around_
kludge until yum-metadata-parser is fixed:
pull the _sqlitecache.so (and just that file) from a
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm and use it to replace the one installed
by yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-5.fc9.i386.rpm, and yum works again.
found at:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=178870



Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2008-01-24 15:57:18 UTC
the problem is glib2 changed the functions it calls without incrementing the
version of the library. So the dependency in yum-metadata-parser has no way of
knowing it needs to be changed. reassigning to the glib maintainers.

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2008-02-05 17:07:32 UTC
I don' t know since when it is supported to selectively install development
versions of packages onto older releases. 

Sure, the inaccurate dependency is unfortunate.

Comment 4 seth vidal 2008-02-05 20:25:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 428847 ***


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