Re: rpm 4.2

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote:

> rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.13224: line 851: IntegrateWithGNOME: command not found
> 
> I think I understand the heart of the issue though.
> 
> Here is the requirements section from Firefox 3.0.6:
> 
> <rpm:entry name="xulrunner" flags="GE" epoch="0" ver="1.9.0.6" rel="1"/>
> 
> Because it is GE and not EQ yum determines the requirement and says, I can provide xulrunner 1.9.0.7 because it is the
> latest and it meets the requirement of >= 1.9.0.6. Although it should probably be an EQ because the Firefox 3.0.6 with
> xulrunner 1.9.0.7 does not work, this appears to fall on Red Hat. However, I do think update-minimal should realize that
> the advisory I'm trying to install looks for a specific version of xulrunner (1.9.0.6 in this case) and check to see if
> that version meets the requirement (which it does) and to see if that package is available in the repository (which it
> is) and install that version, not the latest.


And if the requirements said EQ then it would have done that - but the 
assumption yum (and others) use is that newer is better, provided all the 
deps are met.

Please report the requirement problem  as a bug to rhel.

-sv