Bug 442509 - Installing a package with an Obsoletes silently removes the obsoleted package
Summary: Installing a package with an Obsoletes silently removes the obsoleted package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-15 08:33 UTC by Mary Ellen Foster
Modified: 2009-01-09 06:23 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-01-09 06:23:23 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Installing openjdk with failure at end (3.18 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-15 08:34 UTC, Mary Ellen Foster
no flags Details
Installing openjdk successfully (and incidentally removing icedtea) (3.34 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-15 08:34 UTC, Mary Ellen Foster
no flags Details

Description Mary Ellen Foster 2008-04-15 08:33:34 UTC
[NB: I originally added this as a comment against a different Obsoletes issue in
yum (bug 440159), and Seth Vidal indicated that it was an RPM problem, so I'm
filing it here.]

Description of problem:
I decided I wanted to install java-1.6.0-openjdk* from Rawhide on my Fedora 8
machine (which already has java-1.7.0-icedtea*). Note that java-1.6.0-openjdk
Obsoletes java-1.7.0-icedtea < 0:1.7.0.0-0.999.

On the first attempt, yum presented me with the list of packages to be
installed, asked if I wanted to do this, and then failed on rpm_check_debug
because "Package pl-jpl needs java-icedtea, this is not available." This is the
only time icedtea was mentioned in the whole transaction.

I removed pl-jpl and tried again. This time, the transaction went through, and
-- in addition to installing openjdk*, it also deleted icedtea*. But the
transaction summary doesn't reflect this.

I'll attach the console output from both of these yum transactions shortly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.2-7.fc8

Comment 1 Mary Ellen Foster 2008-04-15 08:34:11 UTC
Created attachment 302421 [details]
Installing openjdk with failure at end

Note that the only mention of icedtea is in the error at the end.

Comment 2 Mary Ellen Foster 2008-04-15 08:34:39 UTC
Created attachment 302422 [details]
Installing openjdk successfully (and incidentally removing icedtea)

Especially notice the transaction summary at the end that doesn't mention the
erased packages.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:29:59 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:23:23 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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