tor dependency insanity.

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Tue Mar 2 21:39:09 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 02:21:55PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
> > Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:37 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> >>> --> Processing Dependency: tor-lsb = 0.2.1.23-1200.fc12 for package:
> >>> tor-0.2.1.23-1200.fc12.i686
> >>
> >> This is where things go to hell.  Why in the hell is tor-lsb /required/
> >> by tor?
> >
> > tor-lsb requires only lsb-core (which has a minimal set of dependencies),
> > not whole lsb.  Due to broken redhat-lsb packaging (there exist bugs
> > filed aeons ago) lsb-core pulls in all the x11 stuff which is required by
> > the complete lsb spec.
> >
> 
> True:
> 
> repoquery -q --whatprovides lsb-core-noarch
> redhat-lsb-0:3.2-7.fc12.i686
> 
> this one
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=245494
> 
> and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472633

The latter of these (really the same problem) claim to be fixed in
rawhide.  The question remains to which Fedora versions the fixed
packaging will be backported.

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Matt Domsch
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