Bug 718132 - yum fails to update when new package version doesn't have the same provides/obsoletes
Summary: yum fails to update when new package version doesn't have the same provides/o...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Fedora Packaging Toolset Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: reportio
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Reported: 2011-07-01 06:46 UTC by Jiri Moskovcak
Modified: 2015-02-01 22:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 17:58:20 UTC
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output of ' yum -v install /home/chris/Desktop/libreport-*' (13.04 KB, text/plain)
2011-07-09 13:15 UTC, Christoph Wickert
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Description Jiri Moskovcak 2011-07-01 06:46:14 UTC
Description of problem:
Last week I accidentally pushed an update with a bug in specfile - it has wrong provides/obsoletes and it get thru the testing repository to stable and broke other packages with deps on accidentally obsoleted package. So I did a new update with fixed prov/obs, pushed it, but yum is still trying to cover the missing dependency using the previous package, which fails (obviously).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.29-9.fc16.noarch

How reproducible:
$ yum update 
- should bring new libreport-2.0.4-1.fc15 package, obsoleting report-gtk

$ yum update libreport --enablerepo=updates-testing 
- this should pull libreport-2.0.4-2.fc15 with fixed prov/obs
- this actually won't work, as the update got bad karma because of this problem and was removed from testing (you can download it here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=250462)

- before it was removed from testing this failed with:

Error: Protected multilib versions: libreport-gtk-2.0.4-2.fc15.x86_64 !=
libreport-gtk-2.0.4-1.fc15.i686
Error: Protected multilib versions: libreport-2.0.4-1.fc15.i686 !=
libreport-2.0.4-2.fc15.x86_64


Additional info:
Seems to affect only x86_64.

Comment 1 James Antill 2011-07-06 18:39:27 UTC
 It's going to be impossible to debug this without a clear understanding of what all the versions of packages were ... and probably the full -v output of the "yum update" or "yum update libreport".

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2011-07-09 13:15:56 UTC
Created attachment 512042 [details]
output of ' yum -v install /home/chris/Desktop/libreport-*'

Here you are.

Comment 3 James Antill 2011-07-11 18:50:16 UTC
Ok, that is the "original problem" AIUI where a new version had a missing report-gtk provide ... so yum started at:

  Searching pkgSack for dep: report-gtk

...and everything went downhill from there. This is "expected", although it could be clearer about why it's failing.
 Is there something else you think yum should be doing here?

Comment 4 Jiri Moskovcak 2011-07-13 09:17:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Ok, that is the "original problem" AIUI where a new version had a missing
> report-gtk provide ... so yum started at:
> 
>   Searching pkgSack for dep: report-gtk
> 
> ...and everything went downhill from there. This is "expected", although it
> could be clearer about why it's failing.
>  Is there something else you think yum should be doing here?

- in this case yum finds the old libreport package providing report-gtk and try to add it into the transaction which fails for obvious reasons, so how about it forgets about the older libreport package and continue looking for other alternatives?

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-27 15:39:45 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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