Fwd: How to prevent uploads of broken packages

[Paul Howarth]

Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/29/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 20:43 +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The evolution and gnome-panel packages for Fedora have had broken
>> > dependencies causing them to be impossible to update for almost 3
>> > months.
>>
>> Which Fedora release are you using, which versions of these packages do
>> you have installed, and what happens when you do "yum update"?
> 
> I neglected to include that information because before writing my
> original email, I did a search and found that this exact problem
> reported to this list on June 5 of this year (see
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg00548.html).
> Sorry if I jumped to the wrong conclusions in assuming this was the
> same problem, still unfixed. Anyway, this was confirmed as a package
> bug in that thread. I just tried an update now, with the same results
> as in that message but with different version numbers:
> 
> root at hellboy /h/axel> yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> core                                                                 [1/4]
> ftp://redhat.taygeta.com/pub/RedHat/fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: 
> 
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                                                              [2/4]
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
> freshrpms                                                            [3/4]
> freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                                                               [4/4]
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package evolution-sharp.i386 0:0.10.2-9.5 set to be updated
> ---> Package gnome-panel.i386 0:2.14.3-1.fc5 set to be updated
> ---> Package gnome-panel-devel.i386 0:2.14.3-1.fc5 set to be updated
> ---> Package evolution.i386 0:2.6.3-1.fc5.5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.6 for package: evolution-sharp
> --> Processing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.6 for package: evolution
> --> Processing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.6 for package: gnome-panel
> --> Processing Dependency: libegroupwise-1.2.so.10 for package: evolution
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.6 is needed by package 
> evolution-sharp
> Error: Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.6 is needed by package evolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.6 is needed by package 
> gnome-panel
> Error: Missing Dependency: libegroupwise-1.2.so.10 is needed by
> package evolution
> 
> I assumed that since at that time it was confirmed as a bug in the
> package, and since the error message looks identical, that this was
> the same bugl. If this is a new bug, then I am sorry about the
> confusion and wish to report this as a brand new bug. I am using an
> (otherwise) fully patched FC5, just like the original reporter.

libecal-1.2.so.6 and libegroupwise-1.2.so.10 should be provided by 
evolution-data-server-1.6.3-1.fc5.2, which is available in the updates 
repository.

What version of evolution-data-server do you have installed?

> Since at least the original bug was caused by the upload of a package
> that had incorrect dependencies, I resubmit that the package building
> process could be improved to better check that a new batch of packages
> only depend on themselves and packages already in fedora.

That would be good, yes, and it's quite possible. It would prevent 
things like the libparted-1.6.so.14 dependency issue that happened 
earlier today.

Paul.