dnf: Can't tell me what is pulling in a dependency?

[Richard Shaw]

I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in some mysql
community packages as a dependency but I looked through the options and I
couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell me what was pulling in those
packages. Nov "-v" and not "--debugsolver".

Is it really not possible?

Thanks,
Richard

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in some
> mysql
>  community packages as a dependency but I looked through the options and I
>  couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell me what was pulling in those
>  packages. Nov "-v" and not "--debugsolver".
>
>  Is it really not possible?
>
>  
One way is to rerun the transaction with "--exclude=community-mysql*".
Paired with --assumeno, it'll give you the proposal and not do it.


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[Sérgio Basto]

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 09:13 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Richard Shaw
> <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in some
>  > mysql
>  > community packages as a dependency but I looked through the options
>  > and I
>  > couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell me what was pulling in those
>  > packages. Nov "-v" and not "--debugsolver".
>  > 
>  > Is it really not possible?
>  > 
>  > 
>  
>  One way is to rerun the transaction with "--exclude=community-
>  mysql*".
>  Paired with --assumeno, it'll give you the proposal and not do it. 
dnf repoquery -q --whatprovides mysql

community-mysql-0:5.7.18-2.fc26.x86_64
community-mysql-0:5.7.20-1.fc26.x86_64
mariadb-3:10.1.21-5.fc26.x86_64
mariadb-3:10.1.30-2.fc26.x86_64


but on update is strange that pull community-mysql, because you should
have mariadb already.  

on install you may do :
dnf install mythtv mariadb mariadb-server 

and shouldn't pull any community-mysql package I hope .


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[Sérgio Basto]

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 08:10 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in some
>  mysql community packages as a dependency but I looked through the
>  options and I couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell me what was
>  pulling in those packages. Nov "-v" and not "--debugsolver".
>  Is it really not possible? 
it is debugsolver : 
dnf --debugsolver upgrade -b

but it is my fault I added Requires:  mysql-compat-server >=
5Requires:  mysql >= 5  
maybe we need added Suggests: mariadb-server  mariadb 
>  Thanks,
>  Richard
>  
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[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 08:10 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>  I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in some mysql
>  community packages as a dependency but I looked through the options and I
>  couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell me what was pulling in those
>  packages. Nov "-v" and not "--debugsolver".
>
>  Is it really not possible?
>
>
>  it is debugsolver :
>
>  dnf --debugsolver upgrade -b
>
>  but it is my fault I added
>  Requires:  mysql-compat-server >= 5
>  Requires:  mysql >= 5
>  
That was my first thought but mythtv was not updated on that transaction so
I thought maybe it was something else pulling it in...



>  maybe we need added
>  Suggests: mariadb-server mariadb
>  
 But I already had those installed, it shouldn't have needed to pull in the
mysql packages...

Thanks,
Richard

[Sérgio Basto]

On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 07:08 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Sérgio Basto
> <sergio(a)serjux.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 08:10 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  > > I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in
>  > > some mysql community packages as a dependency but I looked
>  > > through the options and I couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell
>  > > me what was pulling in those packages. Nov "-v" and not "
>  > > --debugsolver".
>  > > Is it really not possible?
>  > 
>  > it is debugsolver : 
>  > 
>  > dnf --debugsolver upgrade -b
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > but it is my fault I added 
>  > Requires:  mysql-compat-server >= 5
>  > Requires:  mysql >= 5  
>  
>  That was my first thought but mythtv was not updated on that
>  transaction so I thought maybe it was something else pulling it in...
>  
>   
>  > maybe we need added 
>  > Suggests: mariadb-server  mariadb
>  
>   But I already had those installed, it shouldn't have needed to pull
>  in the mysql packages... 
With what Fedora release ? 27 , 26 , 28 or el7 ? 



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[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I was updating my mythtv box and I saw that it was pulling in some
> mysql
>  community packages as a dependency but I looked through the options and I
>  couldn't find ANYTHING that would tell me what was pulling in those
>  packages. Nov "-v" and not "--debugsolver".
>
>  Is it really not possible?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Richard 
Yes, it's actually common place. You can select the relevant
mysql-community package if it is already installed and use "rpm -e
--test packagename" and see what would complain. Many binaries have a
dependency on "mysql-libs", and the version in mysql-community is
typically a more recent version than the base mysql package in fedora
or RHEL. My personal suspicion is postfix, which has MySQL library
dependencies.