Bug 439381 - circular dependencies in X11 libraries
Summary: circular dependencies in X11 libraries
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11
Version: 4.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-28 13:10 UTC by Morten K. Poulsen
Modified: 2008-04-11 15:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-11 15:39:40 UTC
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Description Morten K. Poulsen 2008-03-28 13:10:58 UTC
Description of problem:
There is a circular dependency between xorg-x11-libs and xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL,
making it impossible to remove the packages one at a time. Bugs in other
packages gives problems when removing more than one package at a time (see bug
#439235).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.
# rpm -e xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL

2.
# rpm -e xorg-x11-libs

  
Actual results:
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# rpm -e xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
error: Failed dependencies:
        libGL.so.1 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2.i386
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# rpm -e xorg-x11-libs
error: Failed dependencies:
        libX11.so.6 is needed by (installed)
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2.i386
        libXext.so.6 is needed by (installed)
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2.i386
        libXxf86vm.so.1 is needed by (installed)
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2.i386
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]#


Expected results:
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# rpm -e xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]# rpm -e xorg-x11-libs
[root@cn-a-1 mopo]#


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Best regards,
Morten K. Poulsen

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2008-04-11 15:39:40 UTC
Circular deps are legitimate, although not necessarily intuitive.  In this
particular case, there is no problem with removing both at once.  That the
packages in #439235 can't be removed both at once is a bug in those packages only.


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