glibc-headers RPM bug? (was: Re: Kernel dependency issues)
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Dec 12 20:43:04 UTC 2008
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:13:21 -0500, Christopher wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm surprised one can "rpm -e glibc-headers" while keeping glibc-devel
>>>> That looks a bit strange.
>>>
>>> I'll leave you to file a bug on that if you think it's wrong.
>>
>> If it were that easy:
>>
>> $ rpm -qR glibc-devel|grep ^glib
>> glibc = 2.9-2
>> glibc-headers = 2.9-2
>>
>> So, glibc-devel requires glibc-headers.
>>
>> $ rpm -q --provides glibc-headers
>> glibc-headers(i386)
>> glibc-headers = 2.9-2
>> glibc-headers(x86-32) = 2.9-2
>>
>> $ rpm -q --whatprovides glibc-headers
>> glibc-headers-2.9-2.i386
>>
>> $ sudo rpm -e glibc-headers
>>
>> Uh? That should not have been possible, because now:
>>
>> $ rpm -V glibc-devel
>> Unsatisfied dependencies for glibc-devel-2.9-2.i386:
>> glibc-headers = 2.9-2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.9-2.i386
>>
>> Can anyone reproduce this? Surely I cannot file a bug about glibc. This
>> looks more like a bug in RPM. F10 here, btw.
>
> it's a Requires(Pre) thats allowing it to happen.
Yup, just checked (from F-10 glibc.spec):
%package devel
Summary: Object files for development using standard C libraries.
Group: Development/Libraries
Requires(pre): /sbin/install-info
Requires(pre): %{name}-headers = %{version}-%{release}
>
> Try it with xorg-x11-filesystem
>
> rpm -e xorg-x11-filesystem
> rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5
>
> notice the broken deps :(
It's actually the verification which is showing bogus results here
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223642) wrt rpm semantics:
"Requires(pre): pkg1" means "pkg1" is required to be present during
execution of %pre scriptlet of the package and nothing else. It does not
imply "Requires: pkg1", that would have to be separately added if pkg1 is
needed during installation *and* runtime.
Whether this is sane behavior is debatable, and has been debated several
times in various places...
- Panu -
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