Hi, This is probably a stupid question, so I apologize in advance. I guess I don't really understand how the rpm dependency processing works. I am having difficulty understanding how bugzilla's perl(CGI) requirement is processed: bash-4.1$ rpm --requires -qp bugzilla-3.4.10-1.fc13.noarch.rpm | fgrep 'perl(CGI)' perl(CGI) perl(CGI) >= 3.33 Looking at the installed rpms on my system, I see that perl(CGI) is provided, but with no version number: bash-4.1$ rpm --provides -qa | fgrep 'perl(CGI)' perl(CGI) This comes from the perl rpm: bash-4.1$ rpm -q --whatprovides 'perl(CGI)' perl-5.10.1-120.fc13.x86_64 Note that the perl-CGI rpm is NOT installed on my system. Based on the bugzilla dependency, I expected it to require that I install the perl-CGI rpm: bash-4.1$ repoquery --provides perl-CGI perl(CGI) perl(CGI::Apache) = 1.01 perl(CGI::Carp) = 3.51 perl(CGI::Cookie) perl(CGI::Fast) perl(CGI::Pretty) = 3.46 perl(CGI::Push) perl(CGI::Switch) = 1.01 perl(CGI::Util) = 3.51 perl(CGITempFile) perl-CGI = 3.51-1.fc13 So I expect that an attempt to install the bugzilla rpm should fail since perl-CGI is not installed. However, it does not: bash-4.1$ rpm -Uvh --test bugzilla-3.4.10-1.fc13.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] So the installation would succeed without perl-CGI. I expected to see an error about a failed dependency, something like this: bash-4.1$ rpm -Uvh --test ImageMagick-perl-6.5.8.10-7.fc13.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: ImageMagick = 6.5.8.10-7.fc13 is needed by ImageMagick-perl-6.5.8.10-7.fc13.x86_64 But this does not happen. Also, "yumdownloader --resolve bugzilla" does not download the perl-CGI rpm. So despite the fact that bugzilla says it requires perl-CGI version >= 3.33, neither rpm nor yum seems to honor the version number requirement. They are satisfied with the presence of perl-CGI without any version number. Can somebody please explain why bugzilla installs without perl-CGI? Thanks in advance, Andy _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
