Meeting summary/minutes from today's EPEL sig meeting (2011-03-14)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:38 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On 2011-03-14, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> > * clamav  (nirik, 20:40:16)
> > 20:40:16 <nirik> #topic clamav
> > 20:48:35 <nb> i think he is having problems with the requires/obsoletes
> > 20:48:49 <nb> but i wonder if it is because he isn't yum localinstall'ing a=
> > ll of the rpms in one transaction
> 
> I'm unable to figure out the dependency problems for 
> old clamav-filesystem on RHEL5.
> 
> 	# yum localinstall clamav-db-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm clamd-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm clamav-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm 
> 	Setting up Local Package Process
> 	Examining clamav-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm: clamav-0.97-8.el5.x86_64
> 	Marking clamav-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm as an update to clamav-0.95.1-1.el5.x86_64
> 	Examining clamav-db-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm: clamav-db-0.97-8.el5.x86_64
> 	Marking clamav-db-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm to be installed
> 	Examining clamd-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm: clamd-0.97-8.el5.x86_64
> 	Marking clamd-0.97-8.el5.x86_64.rpm to be installed
> 	Resolving Dependencies
> 	--> Running transaction check
> 	---> Package clamav.x86_64 0:0.97-8.el5 set to be updated
> 	---> Package clamav-db.x86_64 0:0.97-8.el5 set to be updated
> 	---> Package clamd.x86_64 0:0.97-8.el5 set to be updated
> 	--> Processing Conflict: clamav-filesystem conflicts clamav > 0.95.1-1.el5
> 	--> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 	clamav-filesystem-0.95.1-1.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
>   	--> clamav-filesystem conflicts with clamav
> 	Error: clamav-filesystem conflicts with clamav
>  	You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  	You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 	The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
> 
> This was with clamav-db obsoleting and providing clamav-filesystem:
> 
> 	Provides: clamav-filesystem = %{version}-%{release}
> 	Obsoletes: clamav-filesystem < %{version}-%{release}
> 
> I'm now wondering if there might be a problem with the old
> clamav-filesystem package. It has some conflicts listed (which
> I don't know what means":
> 
> # rpm -q --queryformat 'CONFLICTS: %{CONFLICTS}\nCONFLICTVERSION: %{CONFLICTVERSION}\nCONFLICTFLAGS: %{CONFLICTFLAGS}\nCONFLICTNAME: %{CONFLICTNAME}\n' clamav-filesystem
> CONFLICTS: clamav
> CONFLICTVERSION: 0.95.1-1.el5
> CONFLICTFLAGS: 2
> CONFLICTNAME: clamav
> 
> Looking at the old spec-file, it the clamav-filesystem package has:
> 
> 	Conflicts:      %name < %version-%release
> 	Conflicts:      %name > %version-%release
> 
> 	http://fpaste.org/6PwF/
> 
> But -- I still don't understand why this isn't resolved when upgrading
> clamav-db obsoletes and provides clamav-filesystem. Is the problem maybe
> that during the upgrade both packages will be installed, and that 
> triggers this conflict ?
> 
> Any suggestions for how to fix this ?
> 

What version of yum in el5 is it? We fixed a book specifically about
obsoletes in localinstall runs.

-sv