[F13] update failure: nss*

[JD]

On 09/14/2010 04:25 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:17:03 -0400, Todd wrote:
>
>> Christoph A. wrote:
>>> Since today the automatic update process fails with the following notice:
>>>
>>> could not do simulate: nss-softokn-3.12.7-3.fc13.x86_64 requires
>>> nss-util>= 3.12.7
>>> nss-tools-3.12.7-3.fc13.x86_64 requires
>>> libnssutil3.so(NSSUTIL_3.12.7)(64bit)
>>> nss-softokn-3.12.7-3.fc13.i686 requires nss-util>= 3.12.7
>>> nss-3.12.7-3.fc13.i686 requires nss-util>= 3.12.7
>>> nss-3.12.7-3.fc13.x86_64 requires nss-util>= 3.12.7 : Success - empty
>>> transaction
>>>
>>> someone else experiencing similar problems?
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nss-3.12.7-4.fc13,nss-util-3.12.7-2.fc13,nss-softokn-3.12.7-3.fc13,nspr-4.8.6-1.fc13?_csrf_token=3804d3987eb4e49cb08ac9af125e9b6bbcb41783
>>
>> No idea why the nss packagers seem to cause this sort of problem so
>> regularly.  Thankfully, it's not some core security package where such
>> a lack of attention to detail would be problematic. :/
> The packaging is fragile, not only due to SONAME changes. As I've pointed
> out in a private reply in a conversation about the nss* broken deps, it is
> something that would deserve spec file enhancements to prevent future breakage.
> Recently, even the nss.pc pkgconfig file's automatic Provides disappeared
> unexpectedly(?) because of some %global definitions in the spec file for
> specific minimum versions of build requirements.

On my F13, I have
nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-3.fc13.i686
nss_ldap-264-10.fc13.i686
nss-3.12.7-4.fc13.i686
nss_db-2.2.3-0.3.pre1.fc13.i686
nss-softokn-devel-3.12.7-3.fc13.i686
nss-mdns-0.10-8.fc12.i686
nss_compat_ossl-0.9.6-1.fc13.i686
nss-util-3.12.7-2.fc13.i686
nss-sysinit-3.12.7-4.fc13.i686
nss-softokn-3.12.7-3.fc13.i686
nss-tools-3.12.7-4.fc13.i686


and

yum check

does not flag any missing dependenceies .