Packages where EPEL beats EL

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 20:39:49 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> said:
>> On Friday 12 March 2010, Chris Adams wrote:
>> > This is similar to mrtg vs. perl-SNMP_Session; mrtg has its own private
>> > copy of the SNMP_Session perl modules, but they are found by the
>> > auto-provides (so the RPM lists them).  Then mrtg is a shorter name than
>> > perl-SNMP_Session, so a package requiring "perl(SNMP_Session)" gets a
>> > broken install.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563619
>
> Yeah, that's a dupe of my 4 month old bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532556
>
> I looked at the RHEL 5.5 beta, but I didn't see a new mrtg package.

Is there something we can put in the spec files to tell RPM not to look at it?


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