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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Installed 8.0 from CD as a typical workstation. Over the past few months I have applied various patches and updates when prompted by the Notification Tool. Then went to install a Perl module from CPAN, and the 'make' failed because gcc was not installed. So, I ran redhat-config-packages to install the 'Development Tools' from the CD, but it wouldn't let me because it was unable to locate two items: cyrus-sasl-2.1.7-2 krb5-libs-1.2.5-6 However, there were newer versions of those two items in place, namely cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-1 krb5-libs-1.2.5-8 So I had to use rpm to --force install the older versions, then install the 'Development Tools', then update the two items again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install without Development Tools 2. Apply all patches via up2date 3. Try to install Development Tools from CD Additional info: Also found this in groups.google.com, so I know it's not just me: Newsgroups: linux.redhat.rpm Subject: problems with the updated rpms Date: 23 Jan 2003 09:44:02 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 12 Message-ID: <d2fb770b.0301230944.79fdff15@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.157.171.207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1043343843 26574 127.0.0.1 (23 Jan 2003 17:44:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jan 2003 17:44:03 GMT Hi! I have installed Redhat 8.0 and I updated some packages (including cyrus-sasl and krb5-libs) using the up2date tool. The problem is that I want to install the "development tools" part, using the pachage manager and the presented packages are labeled as "unlocatable". In fact, I have installed newer versions of them. Can anyone help? Thanks, cristi
i had same prob, except with not only cyrus-sasl and krb5-libs, but also with open-ldap. it wanted the older one of that, too, even though i had a newer one already installed.
This is going to be difficult to impossible to fix without having redhat-config-packages tie into RHN.
>This is going to be difficult to impossible to fix without having >redhat-config-packages tie into RHN. Well, if that's what it takes.... Automatic updates are essential for the security of the machine, the safety of the user, and the health of the Internet (ref: SQL_Slammer). And we can't expect the user to know with certainty what they will want installed from the CD during the initial setup. What redhat-config-packages needs is a way to determine 1. if the required package is installed, and if so 2. if the version is the same or newer than the required version. In this case, the following would have made that determination: <pre> #!/usr/bin/perl $required = 'cyrus-sasl-2.1.7-2'; $installed = 'cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-1'; ($pkg_req, $maj_req, $med_req, $min_req, $rev_req) = pkg_parse($required); ($pkg_ins, $maj_ins, $med_ins, $min_ins, $rev_ins) = pkg_parse($installed); print "Package: ", $pkg_req, "\n\n"; print " required: Major = ", $maj_req, "\n", " Medial = ", $med_req, "\n", " Minor = ", $min_req, "\n", " Revision = ", $rev_req, "\n\n"; print " installed: Major = ", $maj_ins, "\n", " Medial = ", $med_ins, "\n", " Minor = ", $min_ins, "\n", " Revision = ", $rev_ins, "\n\n"; if ($maj_ins>$maj_req) { $ok = 1; } elsif ($maj_ins<$maj_req) { $ok = 0; } else { if ($med_ins>$med_req) { $ok = 1; } elsif ($med_ins<$med_req) { $ok = 0; } else { if ($min_ins>$min_req) { $ok = 1; } elsif ($min_ins<$min_req) { $ok = 0; } else { $ok = ($rev_ins>=$rev_req); } } } if ($ok) { print "The installed version is the same or newer than the required version\n"; } else { print "The installed version is older than the required version\n"; } sub pkg_parse { ($_) = @_; /(.+)-(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)-(\d+)$/; my @parsed = ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5); return @parsed; } </pre>
*** Bug 84238 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for not responding to bug #78638 where all of this has been documented earlier. :-(
>Thanks for not responding to bug #78638 I did search for related bugs before posting. Had I found that one, I might have reopened it....
*** Bug 87855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 89633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Similar issue in RH9: Trying to install several packages (KDE, VIM, Xemacs, ...) fails: unlocatable package: openssh-3.5p1.6 However: rpm -qa | grep openssh openssh-3.5p1.6-9
Similar problem in RH9. I performed a farily vanilla server install of RH9 plus KDE. Then ran Up2Date to get all the latest patches. However, I decided to add some dev packages. I then recieved a packages not found warning. (Krb5-libs = 1.2.7-8 and Openssl = 0.9.7a-2 not found) Due to Up2Date I am actually running newer versions. Any Advice?
The work-around is to install the updated development packages with up2date prior to installing the rest with redhat-config-packages: up2date krb5-devel openssl-devel You may need to do the same for any other package which causes problems in redhat-config-packages.
*** Bug 103937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 105971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 89139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It would be _really_ nice if up2date simply understood the package "groups". Then up2date could be a better workaround for this. Could problem be somehow related to the installed comps.xml not being updated? AFAIK, there is no other convenient way to install whole "groups" of packages. This and the CD mount problem are becoming quite frustrating for people. I am receiving ever increasing reports of this problem from many folks. (Hopefully this is the best place to report it).
This report is filed against a product which is no longer supported. It is very likely that the problem is resolved in the current version of Fedora Core or scheduled to be resolved with the new system-config-packages scheduled to land in Fedora Core 5.