From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 Description of problem: Using redhat-config-packages, I am unable to remove some packages due to unresolved dependencies, such as kdegames and mikmod. Attached is a screenshot of the error message I get when trying to remove kdegames. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. After doing a "Personal Desktop" install of RHL, open redhat-config-packages 2. Attempt to remove kdegames with r-c-p Additional info:
Created attachment 90303 [details] The error message I get when trying to remove kdegames
Just wanted to submit a similar bug when I found that this one describes the same symptoms. I started with a customized workstation installation and wanted to remove _all_ development packages. The result is this (also note attached screenshot): $ redhat-config-packages * Core references package efibootmgr which doesn't exist * Core references package elilo which doesn't exist Unselecting libxslt-devel already marked for removal Unselecting already uninstalled package glade Unselecting already uninstalled package splint Unselecting already uninstalled package ElectricFence Unselecting already uninstalled package expect Unselecting already uninstalled package cproto Unselecting already uninstalled package nasm Unselecting already uninstalled package automake14 Unselecting already uninstalled package gcc-g77 Unselecting already uninstalled package gcc-objc Unselecting already uninstalled package ddd Unselecting already uninstalled package gcc-gnat Unselecting already uninstalled package pstack Unselecting already uninstalled package dmalloc Unselecting already uninstalled package njamd Unselecting already uninstalled package gcc-java Unselecting already uninstalled package dejagnu Unselecting already uninstalled package pmake * depcheck: package audiofile-devel needs pkgconfig >= 0.8 (not provided) * depcheck: package compat-gcc needs binutils >= 2.12.90.0.7-1 (not provided) * depcheck: package mod_ssl needs make (not provided) * depcheck: package stunnel needs make (not provided) * depcheck: package gstreamer-devel needs glib2-devel >= 2.0.1 (not provided) ('pkgconfig', '0.8', 12) ('binutils', '2.12.90.0.7-1', 12) ('make', None, 0) ('make', None, 0) ('glib2-devel', '2.0.1', 12) The critical error message and list of unlocatable packages is confusing, since the packages it complains about are installed. $ rpm -q pkgconfig binutils make glib2-devel pkgconfig-0.14.0-3 binutils-2.13.90.0.18-6 make-3.79.1-17 glib2-devel-2.2.1-1 Apparently, it tries to uninstall those packages from the development group which are strictly required by other packages not in the development group.
Created attachment 90378 [details] snapshot for comment #2
observed in redhat-config-packages-1.1.8-1 after an everything install, opened the tool, deselected SQL Database Server and News Server, and clicked Forward. Got a "Packages Not Found" error similar to the one above.
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.