From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 Description of problem: When running up2date without the db1-1.85-8.i386.rpm installed fails even though the upd2date rpm does not depend on db1. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -e db1 2. up2date Actual Results: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1169, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 415, in main from up2date_client import gui File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 20, in ? import gnome, gnome.ui File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gnome/ui.py", line 3, in ? import _gnomeui, gnome ImportError: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Expected Results: the up2date should have started Additional info: The problem goes away when after installing the db1-1.85-8.i386.rpm.
Looks like gnome is missing the dep actually, since no gnome apps work when you do that. I'm reassinging this to a gnome component.
db1 is in the gnome-libs package now, so it'd be hard to remove it.