wireshark-gnome packaging problem?

Leonid Podolny leonidp.lists at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 08:36:58 UTC 2007


Today, I tried to run "yum update" and ran into following problem:

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[leonidp at leonidl ~]$ sudo yum update
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package texinfo-tex.x86_64 0:4.11-3.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64 0:0.10.15-1.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package system-config-firewall.noarch 0:1.0.12-3.1.fc8 set to be 
updated
---> Package nspluginwrapper.i386 0:0.9.91.5-14.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package nspluginwrapper.x86_64 0:0.9.91.5-14.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-server-utils.x86_64 0:7.3-2.fc8 set to be updated
[snip]
--> Processing Dependency: libsmi for package: wireshark-gnome
---> Package exiv2-libs.i386 0:0.15-5.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package exiv2-libs.x86_64 0:0.15-5.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package libexif.i386 0:0.6.15-5.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libsmi is needed by package wireshark-gnome
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The wireshark-gnome RPM does list libsmi (without version information) 
as a requirement, while older releases didn't. Looks like they forgot to 
package (or publish?) a new RPM for libsmi.




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