On 10/11/2011 11:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 10/11/2011 08:16 PM, Jan Vcelak wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 October 2011 18:22:34, Tomi Leppikangas wrote: >>> Kashyap Chamarthy writes: >>>> Running Transaction Check >>>> ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve: >>>> /bin/sh is needed by groff-base-1.21-5.fc17.x86_64 >>> >>> I have this same problem when trying to upgrade from fedora 15 to rawhide. >>> I noticed that groff-base package have 2 /bin/sh as dependency, is there >>> some whitespace or some other error? >> >> I probably missed that. And I will take a look at it. > > This is a bug in rpm's handling of %pretrans dependencies. I'll try to > get it fixed tomorrow, BUT this also does point out a problem in the > package: > > %pretrans scripts can almost never in real life be /bin/sh scripts, > because on initial installation, at the point where %pretrans scripts > get executed there is no shell! Or anything else for that matter. The > only kind of %pretrans script that always work are ones using the > embedded Lua interpreter, ie '%pretrans -p <lua>'. External interpreters > in %pretrans are /supposed/ to work in upgrade scenarios (barring this > bug, duh), but as in practise you can never guarantee a package is only > ever applied as an update on an already running system, %pretrans > scriptlets using /bin/sh or such external interpreter are not usable. Thanks Panu for taking a look. > > - Panu - -- /kashyap -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
