[Spacewalk-list] Requesting rebuilds of F17 packages

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:44:56PM +0700, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
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> I installed a Spacewalk 1.8 server on top of a fresh Fedora 17
> installation, and that works fine. However, when attempting to bring
> the machine up to date, it seems that the Spacewalk installation have
> versioned dependencies on some packages that have incompatible, newer
> versions in the Fedora 17 updates repository:
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> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package:
> > spacewalk-taskomatic-1.8.180-1.fc17.noarch (installed) Requires:
> > quartz < 2.0 Removing: quartz-1.8.1-5.fc17.noarch (installed) 
> > quartz = 1.8.1-5.fc17 Updated By: quartz-2.1.2-3.fc17.noarch
> > (fedora) quartz = 2.1.2-3.fc17 Available:
> > quartz-1.5.2-4.jpp5.noarch (jpackage-generic) quartz =
> > 1.5.2-4.jpp5 Error: spacewalk-taskomatic conflicts with
> > quartz-2.1.2-3.fc17.noarch Error: Package:
> > spacewalk-java-1.8.180-1.fc17.noarch (installed) Requires:
> > hibernate3 = 3.2.4 Removing:
> > hibernate3-3.2.4-1.SP1_CP01.9.jpp5.noarch (installed) hibernate3 =
> > 3.2.4-1.SP1_CP01.9.jpp5 Updated By: hibernate3-3.6.10-6.fc17.noarch
> > (updates) hibernate3 = 3.6.10-6.fc17 Error: spacewalk-search
> > conflicts with quartz-2.1.2-3.fc17.noarch Error: Package:
> > spacewalk-search-1.8.6-1.fc17.noarch (installed) Requires: quartz <
> > 2.0 Removing: quartz-1.8.1-5.fc17.noarch (installed) quartz =
> > 1.8.1-5.fc17 Updated By: quartz-2.1.2-3.fc17.noarch (fedora) quartz
> > = 2.1.2-3.fc17 Available: quartz-1.5.2-4.jpp5.noarch
> > (jpackage-generic) quartz = 1.5.2-4.jpp5 You could try using
> > --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm
> > -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> Could the affected packages be rebuilt? Alternatively, documentation

The versioned dependency is there for a reason -- our current code is
not compatible with quartz 2+. We are tracking the issue at

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851487

but the solution is not just merely rebuilding without those
Requires/Conflicts.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat