pine

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 19 May 2008 12:19:48 +0100 (BST), Patrick Dupre wrote:

> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 19 May 2008 11:43:07 +0100 (BST), Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> trying to install pine on a FC7 machine, this is the error that I got:
> >>   yum install pine
> >> Setting up Install Process
> >> Parsing package install arguments
> >> Resolving Dependencies
> >> --> Running transaction check
> >> ---> Package pine.i386 0:4.64-7.lvn7 set to be updated
> >> --> Processing Dependency: libc-client.so.2006 for package: pine
> >> --> Processing Dependency: libc-client2006 >= 2006k for package: pine
> >> --> Running transaction check
> >> ---> Package pine.i386 0:4.64-7.lvn7 set to be updated
> >> --> Processing Dependency: libc-client2006 >= 2006k for package: pine
> >> ---> Package libc-client2006.i386 0:2006h-1.fc7 set to be updated
> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> >> Error: Missing Dependency: libc-client2006 >= 2006k is needed by package
> >> pine
> >
> > Do you see
> >
> >  libc-client-2007a1-3.fc7
> yes,
> 
> Installed Packages
> libc-client.i386                         2007a1-3.fc7           installed
> 
> >
> > in the updates repo yet? "yum list libc-client\*"
> >
> > $ rpm -qp --obsoletes libc-client-2007a1-3.fc7.i386.rpm
> > libc-client2004d < 1:2004d-2
> > libc-client2004e < 2004e-2
> > libc-client2004g < 2004g-7
> > libc-client2006 < 2006k-2
> > libc-client2007 < 2007-2

Then there are packaging mistakes involved that cause dependency hell.
The newer libc-client2007 is binary-incompatible with libc-client2006,
because it provides a different library (libc-client.so.2007
versus libc-client.so.2006), and additionally, "libc-client2006" is not
provided as a virtual package name although it is made obsolete. In
either case, pine from Livna would need a rebuild to escape from this
mess.