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Bug 456239

Summary: stale git packages interferring with latest package
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Brenton Leanhardt <bleanhar>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.3CC: bkearney, jgranado, jwboyer, mastahnke, tmz
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Description Brenton Leanhardt 2008-07-22 13:27:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
The 1.5.3 packages for git seems to be interfering at kickstart time with the
1.5.5 packages.  If a network install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2
includes the EPEL5 repository and tries in to install the 'git' package, the
install will exit in file conflicts between the two versions.  Internally we
have mirrored EPEL and removed the 1.5.3, but every time we have to re-mirror we
run into this problem again.

I don't exactly know why anaconda would try to pull in the git-core package when
our kickstart is simply requesting that the latested version of the git package
be installed. I will attach the kickstart in question to see if someone can see
the exact cause of the problem. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 5.2 (using latest Xen packages)
EPEL 5

How reproducible:
See included kickstart

Actual results:
See attached screen shot from VM

Additional info:
As an aside, I have not noticed this issue on systems that simply include EPEL
post installation and install git via yum.
Comment 1 Brenton Leanhardt 2008-07-22 13:27:24 UTC 
Created attachment 312342 [details]
kickstart
Comment 2 Brenton Leanhardt 2008-07-22 13:28:40 UTC 
Created attachment 312343 [details]
screenshot from VM showing error
Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2008-10-14 13:08:31 UTC 
There isn't much we can do in git here...  it sounds like anaconda in RHEL gets confused and doesn't do the proper thing?
Comment 4 Todd Zullinger 2009-06-06 01:02:14 UTC 
Should this be re-assigned to anaconda or closed (as CANTFIX? NOTABUG?)?
Comment 5 Joel Andres Granados 2009-06-30 09:16:17 UTC 
This is something that needs to be addressed in the git spec file contained in the EPEL repository.  The solution might be for git-core to replace git.  I would open a bug for EPEL and address this issue there.