Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89119
Update of mysql requires perl-DBD-MySQL
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:08 EDT
Description of problem: Update of mysql requires perl-DBD-MySQL Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mysql version 3.23.52.3, installed by upgrade to 8.0, was updated to 3.23.54a-4 from updates.redhat.com How reproducible: rpm -Fvh * in i386 directory of an exact mirror of updates.redhat.com. These packages where installed and updated: -mysql -mysql-server -mysql-devel perl-DBD-MySQL was not installed in the system Steps to Reproduce: As above RPM complains mysql requires perl-DBD-MySQL Actual results: Packages weren't updated. Expected results: Packages should be updated... I assume perl-DBD-MySQL should require mysql, and not the other way round. Additional info: After installing perl-DBD-MySQL 2.1017-3 from 8.0 CDset, everything worked fine.
Trond changed in 3.23.50-2 to fix bug 66349. mysqlhotcopy (contained in the mysql package) requires both of these packages at run-time. From the mysql.spec file: * Mon Jun 10 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 3.23.50-2 - Add dependency on perl-DBI and perl-DBD-MySQL (#66349) However, you mention something interesting. Version 3.23.52-3, which was the base RHL 8.0 version, also contains these requirements. From the mysql.spec file of 3.23.52-3: Requires: perl-DBI, perl-DBD-MySQL So, this requirement was in RHL 8.0 from the beginning. Did you upgrade from RHL 7.x?
Well then, there was something wrong with dependency checking when upgrading... Yes, I upgraded from 7.3+all-updates-to-date to 8.0, and then applied all updates for 8.0.
Possibly. It looks as though the mysql package was not upgraded when moving to RHL 8.0. Did you upgrade using the "installation upgrade" option in the RHL 8.0 installer?
"Installation upgrade" is the option that installs the packages that would otherwise be updated? I'm not sure about the name. If yes, then I did not use it. I just did a plain-old-update. BTW, my installation crashed in the post-upgrade phase, but I have a corrupt anaconda-core. I don't believe that dependencies would fail in that phase though. If I have the time to repair the core, maybe I'll file another bug... ;-)
A post-upgrade crash, while being a bummer, would have no bearing in this matter. All I can tell you is that the perl-DBD-MySQL package is now required by the mysql package. I just tried reproducing this using RHL 7.3 and upgrading to 8.0 using the installer and did not receive an error. I'm glad to see that you installed the perl-DBD-MySQL package and, hopefully, now have mysql up and running.