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Hey list,=20
first off, I'm not subscribed to this list, so please CC: me in your
replies.
While testing yum today (I've been using apt for some time, running
debian and redhat) I saw something weird:=20
1. yum update
went fine=20
and give this as its last line:
package newpg needs libpth.so.14 (not provided)
I figured, nice yum detects broken dependencies, while updating.
2. yum list updates
#> yum list updates
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (stable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (testing) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (unstable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 9 -- US
mirror
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Name Arch Version
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aalib i386 =20
1.4.0-0.fdr.0.5.rc5.rh90
bluefish i386 0.9-0.fdr.4.rh90
gnupg i386 1.2.1-3.fdr.1.rh90
gpasman i386 1.9.2-0.fdr.2.rh90
gtkspell i386 2.0.4-0.fdr.2.rh90
id3lib i386 3.8.3-0.fdr.4.rh90
libdvdread i386 0.9.4-0.fdr.1.rh90
libksba i386 0.4.7-0.fdr.1.rh90
nmap i386 3.20-0.fdr.3.rh90
pth i386 2.0.0-0.fdr.1.rh90
synaptic i386 0.35-0.fdr.1.rh90
xchat i386 2.0.1-0.fdr.5.rh90
xmms-alarm i386 0.3.3-0.fdr.2.rh90
xvidcore i386 0.9.1-0.fdr.2.rh90
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ok, so I expect yum to upgrade these.
3. yum upgrade
#> yum upgrade
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (stable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (testing) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (unstable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 9 -- US
mirror
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Finding obsoleted packages
Resolving dependencies
package newpg needs libpth.so.14 (not provided)
#>
This puzzles me, since I don't think every package in the upgrade list
needs 'libpth' so why does it stop?
It would be nice if it just ignored all packages depending on this and=20
mentioning something like this:
broken dependency: libpth.so.14
package newpg needs libpth.so.14 (not provided)
etc.
while still upgrading the other packages.
And there's something else:=20
#> rpm -q --provides pth
libpth.so.14 =20
pth =3D 1.4.1-1.fedora.1
#> yum provides libpth.so.14
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (stable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (testing) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (unstable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 9 -- US
mirror
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in available packages for a providing package
No packages found
Looking in installed packages for a providing package
Installed package: pth provides libpth.so.14
1 results returned
#> yum info pth
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (stable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (testing) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Fedora Linux (unstable) for Red Hat Linux 9 --
Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates -- Fedora US mirror
Getting headers from: Macromedia Flash Player for Red Hat Linux 9 -- US
mirror
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in Available Packages:
Name : pth
Arch : i386
Version: 2.0.0
Release: 0.fdr.1.rh90
Size : 255.26 kB
Group : System Environment/Libraries
Summary: GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads.
Description:
Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms
which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple
threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications.
All threads run in the same address space of the server application,
but each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time
stack, signal mask and errno variable.
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Looking in Installed Packages:
Name : pth
Arch : i386
Version: 1.4.1
Release: 1.fedora.1
Size : 235.45 kB
Group : System Environment/Libraries
Summary: GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads.
Description:
Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms
which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple
threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications.
All threads run in the same address space of the server application,
but each thread has it's own individual program-counter, run-time
stack, signal mask and errno variable.
So yum apparently knows it's installed, why does it mention the error
then ?
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regards, koenraad.
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