Missing dependency libpisock.so.8 for evolution

[Paul Howarth]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:21:10 +0100
> Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Erik Hemdal <ehemdal at townisp.com> writes:
>>
>>> Software Updater fails to apply updates on my system because an
>>> update for evolution requires libpisock.so.8.  Same thing happens
>>> with a conventional 'yum update' -- the dependency check fails.
>>>
>>> My system has libpisock.so.9 installed with the pilot-link package.
>>> It's a fresh install of FC5.  This is only the second yum update I
>>> have run on the machine.  So that explains why the dependency is
>>> missing, but not how it came about.  Is this due to a conflict
>>> between evolution and pilot-link; a user error; or a packaging
>>> problem somewhere along the line?
>>>
>>> Can't find anything in the recent list postings, which is why I'm
>>> posting.  Anyone else see this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!   Erik
>> I saw the same but when I did yum update one hour later, it's
>> solved. Depends on the mirror you use.
> 
> Hello, Everyone
> I (hopefully) just re-read this entire thread before I sent this, and I
> THINK that this aspect of this problem has not been mentioned.
> sylpheed-claws (from Fedora Extras) requires libpisock.so.9, which was
> provided by pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.5.2.1.i386.rpm.  See the following:
> --> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 for package: sylpheed-claws
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 is needed by package
> sylpheed-claws
> 
> BUT, kdepim requires libpisock.so.8 (which comes with the recent update
> - pilot-link-0.11.8-12.4.fc5.i386.rpm.  See the following:
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.8 for package: kdepim
> 
> I just finished playing around with this, and I don't WANT to go
> through it again (but I will if you think it is necessary)  But I found
> that if I want to install sylpheed-claws from Fedora Extras, I cannot
> have kdepim or any of it's dependencies installed.  Not a HUGE deal,
> since my main installation of KDE is compiled from source (Branch 3.5
> from KDE SVN)  But this might affect someone else.
> 
> Just so you can see that both versions of libpisock.so were mentioned
> in the same yum transaction, see the following:
> 
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.8 for package: kdepim
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for pilot-link to pack into transaction set.
> pilot-link-0.11.8-12.4.fc 100% |=========================|  21 kB    00:00
> ---> Package pilot-link.i386 2:0.11.8-12.4.fc5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: pilot-link = 1:0.12.0-0.pre4.5.2.1 for package: pilot-link-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 for package: sylpheed-claws
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for pilot-link-devel to pack into transaction set.
> pilot-link-devel-0.11.8-1 100% |=========================|  14 kB    00:00
> ---> Package pilot-link-devel.i386 2:0.11.8-12.4.fc5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 for package: sylpheed-claws
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 is needed by package sylpheed-claws
> 
> Admittedly, I arrived at this point by uninstalling evolution and all
> of it's dependencies, then removing all pilot-related RPM's (this
> resulted in me removing a few KDE RPM's.  So the above contextual
> output is actually the result of the following command:
> yum install kdepim kdepim-devel kdeaddons kdeaddons-atlantikdesigner
> kdesdk kdesdk-devel kdewebdev kdewebdev-devel kdevelop
> 
> I assume that the new update for pilot-link that I saw mentioned in
> this thread will fix this problem.

It looks to me that FC5 sylpheed-claws needs a rebuild to pick up the 
downgraded pilot-link. That's one for bugzilla.

Paul.