Re: Bug in yum-skip-broken (was : yum doesn't look for provides on packages to be installed)

Tim Lauridsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:10 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:44 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> >   
> >> I understand that yum will search for shortest package name to look for
> >> providing package, but in this case I specified that I want to install
> >> MySQL-shared on the command line. Shouldn't that be processed first?
> >> Seeing that MySQL-shared is on command line, shouldn't it chose that
> >> instead of mysql?
> >>
> >> Excluding mysql works as expected.
> >>
> >> # yum -d1 install MySQL-shared MySQL-shared-compat MySQL-client
> >> MySQL-server --exclude mysql
> >>
> >> =============================================================================
> >>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> >> =============================================================================
> >> Installing:
> >>  MySQL-client            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> >> 350 k
> >>  MySQL-server            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql             
> >> 15 M
> >>  MySQL-shared-compat     x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> >> 3.1 M
> >> Installing for dependencies:
> >>  MySQL-shared            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> >> 1.7 M
> >>  perl-DBI                x86_64     1.52-1.fc6       base              605 k
> >>
> >> Transaction Summary
> >> =============================================================================
> >> Install      5 Package(s)
> >> Update       0 Package(s)
> >> Remove       0 Package(s)
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Can you try the exact same thing with 3.2.6, please?
> >
> >   
> 
> The same thing happened with 3.2.6.
> However, upon further investigation, it seems the bug was in
> yum-skip-broken plugin.
> Previously I had
> 
> check_always = 1
> 
> on /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/skip-broken.conf. Now I change it to
> 
> check_always = 0
> 
> Without skip-broken activated (this is OK):
> # yum install MySQL-shared MySQL-shared-compat MySQL-client MySQL-server
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> logos                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> dag                       100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> centos                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> testing                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> mysql                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> local                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> 3670 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package MySQL-client.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(DBI) for package: MySQL-client
> ---> Package MySQL-shared-compat.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> ---> Package MySQL-server.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.52-1.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  MySQL-client            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> 350 k
>  MySQL-server            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql             
> 15 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  MySQL-shared-compat     x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> 3.1 M
>  perl-DBI                x86_64     1.52-1.fc6       base              605 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      4 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> 
> MySQl-shared compat also provides MySQL-shared, so the above output is
> correct.
> However, with skip-broken activated :
> 
> # yum --skip-broken install MySQL-shared MySQL-shared-compat
> MySQL-client MySQL-server
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> logos                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> dag                       100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> centos                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> testing                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> mysql                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> local                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> 3670 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> **** Checking packages for dependency problems
> **** Checking for dep problems  : MySQL-client - 5.0.45-0.glibc23.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package MySQL-client.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit) for package:
> MySQL-client
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(DBI) for package: MySQL-client
> --> Processing Dependency:
> libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit) for package: MySQL-client
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mysql.x86_64 0:5.0.22-2.1.0.1 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.52-1.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> ****   OK : mysql.x86_64 0-5.0.22-2.1.0.1 - u
> ****   OK : perl-DBI.x86_64 0-1.52-1.fc6 - u
> ****   OK : MySQL-client.x86_64 0-5.0.45-0.glibc23 - u
> **** Checking for dep problems  : MySQL-shared-compat -
> 5.0.45-0.glibc23.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package MySQL-shared-compat.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> ****   OK : MySQL-shared-compat.x86_64 0-5.0.45-0.glibc23 - u
> **** Checking for dep problems  : MySQL-server - 5.0.45-0.glibc23.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package MySQL-server.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit) for package:
> MySQL-server
> --> Processing Dependency:
> libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit) for package: MySQL-server
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(DBI) for package: MySQL-server
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mysql.x86_64 0:5.0.22-2.1.0.1 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.52-1.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Processing Conflict: mysql conflicts MySQL
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> ****   Failed
> ****     mysql conflicts with MySQL
> **** Packages with dependency resolving errors
> **** MySQL-server - 5.0.45-0.glibc23.x86_64
> ****   2
> **** End Checking packages for dependency problems
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package mysql.x86_64 0:5.0.22-2.1.0.1 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.52-1.fc6 set to be updated
> ---> Package MySQL-client.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> ---> Package MySQL-shared-compat.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  MySQL-client            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> 350 k
> Installing for dependencies:
>  MySQL-shared-compat     x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
> 3.1 M
>  mysql                   x86_64     5.0.22-2.1.0.1   updates           3.0 M
>  perl-DBI                x86_64     1.52-1.fc6       base              605 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      4 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> 
> Adding --skip-broken --exclude mysql gives the same result as I posted
> earlier, in which it works, but MySQL-shared was also installed (It
> shouldn't have, since MySQL-shared-compat also provides MySQL-shared,
> but apparently no harm done)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fajar
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Weird, what skip-broken does is run the yum depsolve with each package
in the transaction, skip the ones there don't depsolve without errors.

I this case i looks like MySQL-server don't desolve alone.

So 'yum install MySQL-server' should fail to.

Tim
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