Re: Finding RPMs (5.3.0.1 utils) - Solved

My RPM experience is quite limited, but on advice from a colleague and
looking at the outputs from "rpm -ql" we noticed that the files that
were being complained about were (unsurprisingly) duplicated between the
two RPMs - presumably because of the difference Dave points out below.

Given that the complaint that the utilities had when I tried just
installing the custom RPM was libraries I really should have noticed
this earlier - but assumed that the fedora packages and the Net SNMP
packages were from the same line...

Just uninstalling the utils RPM was enough - the 5.1.2-11 libs RPM is
still OK, and working with the custom RPM.

So I've rebuilt the RPM again adding an "Obsoletes" flag for
net-snmp-utils.  That made it rather happier than before - and I'm
getting the results I expected from a clean upgrade.

Many thanks,

John

Dave Shield wrote:
> On 18/07/06, John Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm putting together an upgrade package for our products which includes
>> a transition from net-snmp 5.1.2-11 to 5.3.0.1 (with some custom
>> patches, making it 5.3.0.1-2.CL).
>>
>> When I try to do an RPM upgrade I get a large number of file conflicts
>> of the form:
>> file /usr/bin/encode_keychange from install of net-snmp-5.3.0.1-2.CL
>> conflicts with file from package net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-11
> 
> That's down to a difference in approach between the Net-SNMP project
> packaging, and that used by RedHat/Fedora.   We basically supply a
> single RPM containing everything that we regard as "core", while
> RedHat splits this into a number of separate packages.  I thought that
> the most recent N/S-supplied RPMs included the necessary
> meta-information to handle this, but it's quite possible that this
> isn't working properly.
> 
> The safest thing would be to uninstall the RedHat-supplied RPMs before
> installing ours.  Alternatively, you could use the RedHat SRPM (and
> spec file) to build a suitable unified RPM - Fedora 5 comes with 5.3,
> so that would probably be the best starting point.
> 
> Dave


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