build system issue

[Michael J. Knox]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:16:36 +0100, Ian Chapman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm currently trying to build the package cegui, which succeeds for 
>>devel, but fails on fc4 and fc5. cegui depends on tolua++-devel, which 
>>in turn depends on lua-devel. The problem is, that mock is installing an 
>>older version of lua (5.1-5) which provides lua-devel in the main 
>>package, even though lua-devel was provided as a seperate RPM. This 
>>problem was fixed in version lua 5.1-6 which has been available for 
>>about a week.
>>
>>Buildlogs:
>>http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-4-extras/10942-cegui-0.4.1-8.fc4/x86_64/
>>http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-5-extras/10943-cegui-0.4.1-8.fc5/i386/
>>
>>Question is, what's the best way to deal with this?
> 
> 
> [...]
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libtolua++-5.1.so for package: tolua++-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: lua-devel >= 5.1 for package: tolua++-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: tolua++ = 1.0.92-3.fc5 for package: tolua++-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: liblua-5.1.so for package: tolua++-devel
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> 
> It's Yum's very own way of picking a package which satisfies these
> requirements "lua-devel >= 5.1 and liblua-5.1.so",
> 
>   $ repoquery --whatprovides liblua-5.1.so
>   lua-0:5.1-6.fc5.i386
>   lua-0:5.1-5.fc5.i386          (!)
> 
>   $ repoquery --whatprovides lua-devel
>   lua-devel-0:5.1-6.fc5.i386
>   lua-0:5.1-5.fc5.i386          (!)
>   lua-devel-0:5.1-5.fc5.i386
> 
> instead of picking the really latest packages, which you would get
> after another "yum update".
> 
> There are other (related) cases like this, e.g. failure to notice
> obsolete sub-packages: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/190116
> 
> Most convenient work-around is to get rid of the old lua in the
> repository. You would submit such a request via the Wiki. See
> the Repository Status pages in the middle of:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
> 

The request to have the older offending package removed has been requested.

Michael