On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > I've ran into a real problem where package A requires B, and B requires A : > The current httpd and httpd-suexec packages from FC Development. I've just > installed FC Test from the latest ISOs, a minimal system, then did "yum > install httpd" from there. The problem is that during the transaction, > httpd-suexec (which got pulled in as a dependency) got installed first, > outputting the message "apache group doesn't exist, using root"... BAD! > Yes, the suexec binary is now sgid root on that system instead of sgid > apache. Ouch :( > Now... I'm posting here before bugzilla'ing this since I'd like to know > what the general opinion is regarding packages requiring some of their own > sub-packages like this. I really think it should be avoided since there are > some side-effects like this one that can arise. Furthermore, I don't get > why httpd-suexec nor php-mbstring (as another example) got split off... the > main purpose I can see for such cases is for the original package to be > overridden by another one providing the same functionality, like the X Mesa > libraries. php-mbstring is not required by php in FC3, it's required in the FC2 update to avoid silently removing functionality during the update or a later upgrade to FC3. joe
