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Bug 79935
| Summary: | odd dependency errors on package upgrade (epoch promotion? something else) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-03-02 18:37:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 79579, 100644 | ||
The problem of dependencies not specifying an explict
Epoch: is pervasive throughout the distros.
See the output of
rpm -Vav
Off to distribution for a global fix, bounce back to rpm
for a tweak to --verify for already installed packages
when done.
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rpm-4.2-0.18 [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -q --requires gnome-print | grep gnomeprint libgnomeprint15 = 0.35 [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -q --provides libgnomeprint15 libgnomeprint.so.15 libgnomeprint15 = 1:0.35-8 [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -Va --nofiles gnome-print <no output> So, the current system has satisfied dependencies. However, I try to install a new libgnomeprint15 package: [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -Uvh libgnomeprint15-0.35-9.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libgnomeprint15 = 0.35 is needed by (installed) gnome-print-0.35-9 [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -qp --provides libgnomeprint15-0.35-9.i386.rpm libgnomeprint.so.15 libgnomeprint15 = 1:0.35-9 So, this *should* work without dependency errors. So, I try it: [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps libgnomeprint15-0.35-9.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:libgnomeprint15 ########################################### [100%] [root@nostromo RPMS]# rpm -V --nofiles gnome-print <no output>