Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 492800
Incorrect "package already installed" message
Last modified: 2010-04-04 16:59:20 EDT
Description of problem: I'm trying to install the fedora-packager group on a fresh install of F10 with all updates applied. gnome-packagekit incorrectly claims that it is already installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-packagekit-0.3.14-1.fc10.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install of F10 2. apply all updates 3. try to install "fedora-packager" with gpk-application Actual results: Installation fails: "The package is already installed The package that is trying to be installed is already installed. More details The packages failed to be installed" Expected results: Should install fedora-packager and silently skip packages that are already installed (if any). Additional info: I don't think it's related to bug # 467044, because it looks different and affects a different version. IMO it's more likely that it's because "fedora-packager" is the name of both a group and a package in that group. <group> <id>fedora-packager</id> <_name>Fedora Packager</_name> <_description>Tools and Utilities needed by a Fedora Packager</_description> <default>false</default> <uservisible>true</uservisible> <packagelist> <packagereq type="mandatory">bodhi-client</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">bzr</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">curl</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">cvs</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">fedora-packager</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">git</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">koji</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">mercurial</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">mock</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">plague-client</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">rpm-build</packagereq> <packagereq type="mandatory">rpmdevtools</packagereq> </packagelist> </group> Installing the fedora-packager package first and the group afterwards works fine.
Ok, it not only affects fedora-packager but other groups as well and gets even more strange: - I tried development-tools and got the same error message. - After that I tried lxde-desktop, which worked. - Then development-tools again and this time it worked. - Nevertheless gpk-application showed that development-tools wasn't installed. lxde-desktop on the other hand was. - After restarting gkp-application development-tools was shown as installed.
Happens again, reproducable even after - searching again in gpk-application to refresh the view - restarting gpk-application - reloading package lists Every time gpk-application tells me that synaptics already is installed, but it's not: $ LANG=C rpm -q synaptics package synaptics is not installed
OK, forget the last comment. synaptics is obsoleted by xorg-x11-drv-synaptics. I think gpk-application should ether hide obsolete packages or return a more meaningful error. But this is something for another RFE and not related to this bug.
Still happens in F-11.
Meanwhile this was fixe, no idea when exactly, but I'm not seing it any longer in F-12.