Broken dependencies in Fedora 7 + Test Updates - 2007-09-24

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:39:51PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange <berrange <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > Whatever script is producing this report is broken, since /usr/bin/mkisofs 
> > definitely exists on F7, and I could install perl-Test-AutoBuild without
> > any dependancy problems on F7
> 
> But the testing update 1.1.6-3 no longer provides this file at RPM level, 
> because it now sets it up using the alternatives system, thus upgrading leaves 
> you with a broken dependency.

Ok this what was confusing - I checked what I had already installed, and
also what was in CVS, not noticing the intermediate version in updates-testing

> There's a 1.1.6-5 pending which has this file marked as %ghost (as a hack to 
> make the transition from hardcoded symlinks to alternatives working smoothly). 
> Are %ghosted files considered "provided" by RPM?

Yes the -5 works correctly

# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/mkisofs
genisoimage-1.1.6-5.fc7

Dan.
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