yum update -- F16-latest => rawhide

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 10/11/2011 08:38 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:21:03 +0530, KC (Kashyap) wrote:
> 
>> On 10/11/2011 05:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:19:22 +0530, KC (Kashyap) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Heya,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to get rawhide running by yum updating a  minimal footprint F16 virtual
>>>> machine. Only @core package, so no gnome-* nothing else.
>>>
>>> And no /bin/sh either? It is provided by "bash".
>>
>> That was the obvious check. I /did/ check that (forgot to mention)
>> ##################################################
>> [root at dhcp201-139 ~]# ls -al /bin/sh
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Oct 10 15:20 /bin/sh -> bash
>> ##################################################
>> [root at dhcp201-139 ~]# file /bin/bash
>> /bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses
>> shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped
>> ##################################################
> 
> That check is useless. Only files tracked by the local RPM database and
> repository metadata count.
>  
>> That's what surprised me too. I did try these. 'bash' is right there.
>> ##################################################
>> [root at dhcp201-139 ~]# rpm -qf `which bash`
>> bash-4.2.10-4.fc16.x86_64
> 
> Also a "wrong" test.  "rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/sh" would have been
> the proper check to find the package(s) that provides /bin/sh _prior_ to
> your upgrade attempt.

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[root at dhcp201-139 ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/sh
bash-4.2.10-4.fc16.x86_64
[root at dhcp201-139 ~]#
###############

> 
>> ##################################################
>> [root at dhcp201-139 ~]# repoquery -q --whatprovides --alldeps bash --enablerepo=rawhide
>> --disablerepo=*
>> bash-0:4.2.10-5.fc17.x86_64
> 
> What does that tell you? Not much. Instead:
> 
>   # repoquery --whatprovides /bin/sh --enablerepo=rawhide --disablerepo=*
>   bash-0:4.2.10-5.fc17.x86_64

Right, I notice the same too.
> 
> as you want to find out whether anything still provides /bin/sh when
> enabling the target repo (one could examine it further in case it isn't
> "bash" but an unexpected other package).
> Now as /bin/sh is still available, does the full Yum update output say
> anything about "bash"? 

If you mean, just yum update on F16 (w/o enabling rawhide) -- no.

If you mean, when target repo(rawhide) is enabled, it /does/ attempt to update 'bash' package.
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bash    x86_64    4.2.10-5.fc17          rawhide          978 k
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The error you've seen is not an unresolved
> dependency, but something later. With an unresolved dependency, it
> would have bailed out even before downloading any packages. You would
> have had to add --skip-broken for it to continue.
> 
>> [...]
>> Install       6 Packages
>> Upgrade     197 Packages
>> Remove        1 Package
>>
>> Total size: 108 M
>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>> Downloading Packages:
>> Running Transaction Check
>> ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
>> /bin/sh is needed by groff-base-1.21-5.fc17.x86_64
> 
> You somehow lose /bin/sh during the transaction check, which is something
> unexpected. Is that reproducible also after cleaning Yum's download cache?

Yeah, I was able to reproduce it. I /did/ clear the yum's cache(in fact, removed the
var/cache/yum/* ).


> What is the full list of packages to be updated? 

I've uploaded it here:
http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/full-list-of-rawhide-pkgs-to-be-updated.txt

> Is the new "bash" on it, too?

Yes. This is the version it tries to update to - bash-4.2.10-5.fc17.x86_64.rpm

> Have you looked up the downloaded package below /var/cache/yum
> to check it for errors?

Would the below suffice ?
###############################
[root at dhcp201-139 packages]# pwd
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/16/rawhide/packages
[root at dhcp201-139 packages]# rpm -Vp bash-4.2.10-5.fc17.x86_64.rpm
[root at dhcp201-139 packages]#
###############################

Thanks for you help so far.


-- 
/kashyap