[EPEL-devel] debootstrap, dpkg and man-pages-it

[Andrew C Aitchison]

From Fedora EPEL 6 updates-testing report Tuesday, 24 April 2018:

>  The following Fedora EPEL 6 Security updates need testing: 
...
>  The following builds have been pushed to Fedora EPEL 6
> updates-testing
>  debmirror-2.29-1.el6
>  debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6
>  ocserv-0.12.0-1.el6 php-symfony-psr-http-message-bridge-1.0.2-2.el6
>  php-webmozart-assert-1.3.0-1.el6 
When I attempt to update debootstrap with

# yum update
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6.9/epel-testing/packages/debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6.noarch.rpm

I get (sumary here, full log below the line):
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test

Transaction Check Error:
   file /usr/share/man/it/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz from install of
dpkg-1.16.18-2.el6x86_64 conflicts with file from package
man-pages-it-2.80-6.el6.noarch


(Parenthetically, given rpmquiery -i debootstrap
   Description :
   debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch,
   without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt...
It seems odd that we now require dpkg. If I get to choose, could you
remove the dependency rather than update the decription :-) ?)

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison					Cambridge, UK
 			andrew(a)aitchison.me.uk

---------------------------------------------------------------
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit,
               : security
Setting up Update Process
Examining
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6.9/epel-testing/packages/debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6.noarch.rpm:
debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6.noarch
Marking
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6.9/epel-testing/packages/debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6.noarch.rpm
as an update to debootstrap-1.0.93-1.el6.noarch
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * elrepo: mirrors.coreix.net
  * epel: mirror.netweaver.uk
  * epel-debuginfo: mirror.netweaver.uk
  * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org
  * sl-debuginfo: ftp.scientificlinux.org
  * sl-fastbugs: ftp.scientificlinux.org
  * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
  * sl6x: ftp.scientificlinux.org
  * sl6x-fastbugs: ftp.scientificlinux.org
  * sl6x-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package debootstrap.noarch 0:1.0.93-1.el6 will be updated
---> Package debootstrap.noarch 0:1.0.97-1.el6 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: dpkg for package: debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dpkg.x86_64 0:1.16.18-2.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

===============================================================================
  Package      Arch    Version          Repository Size
===============================================================================
Updating:
  debootstrap  noarch  1.0.97-1.el6     /debootstrap-1.0.97-1.el6.noarch 278 k
Installing for dependencies:
  dpkg         x86_64  1.16.18-2.el6    epel 1.3 M

Transaction Summary
===============================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)
Upgrade       1 Package(s)

Total size: 1.6 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
   file /usr/share/man/it/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz from install of
dpkg-1.16.18-2.el6x86_64 conflicts with file from package
man-pages-it-2.80-6.el6.noarch

Error Summary
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