Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57668
ghostcript fails to upgrade
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 Description of problem: When doing a rpm -Fvh on ghostscript-6.51-16.i386.rpm it returns the message: Error failed dependencies. Omni is needed by ghostscript-6.51-16. Weird that Omni is needed by ghostcript if ghostcript is already installed on the box (and Omni wasn't there before). On top of that, Omni isn't part of the base packages, where is it coming from? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install base OS,(make sure ghostscript is there). 2.Download the ghostcript update, ghostscript-6.51-16.i386.rpm. 3.Do a "rpm -Fvh on ghostscript-6.51-16.i386.rpm" Actual Results: Error failed dependencies. Omni is needed by ghostscript-6.51-16. Expected Results: The file should've been freshened. Additional info:
This was intentional; a feature part of the errata. You can get the Omni package from the same place you got the ghostscript package.
Here's the problem, its listed under Security Advisory: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh72-errata-security.html This link says that this patch group fixes a security issue: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-138.html Omni should be part of the "Enhancements" Errata. It should not be required to install Omni to fix a security hole. The only thing Omni is providing is additional print drivers. Fixing a hole in ghostscript should be possible by just patching ghostscript. The addition of Omni as a requirement for the new version of ghostscript is unecessary. This shoving "features" with patches is what got MS in trouble with their Service Packs.
Well, it's very difficult to rectify now. :-( Thanks for bringing it to our attention, and I'll make sure to separate out security updates on any future errata in packages I maintain (this particular advisory was put together by the previous maintainer of these packages).