[Yum] Bug in yum-skip-broken (was : yum doesn't look for provides on packages to be installed)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:08 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> >> Adding --skip-broken --exclude mysql gives the same result as I posted
> >> earlier, in which it works, but MySQL-shared was also installed (It
> >> shouldn't have, since MySQL-shared-compat also provides MySQL-shared,
> >> but apparently no harm done)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Fajar
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> >
> > Weird, what skip-broken does is run the yum depsolve with each package
> > in the transaction, skip the ones there don't depsolve without errors.
> >
> > I this case i looks like MySQL-server don't desolve alone.
> >
> > So 'yum install MySQL-server' should fail to.
> >
> >   
> You are correct. I didn't look closely at the packages being installed
> with --skip-broken. MySQL-server was indeed not there. Regardless, the
> problem is the same :
> 
> - without --skip-broken, installation succeeded
> - with --skip-broken, MySQL-server was automatically removed from
> transaction, but installation still failed
> - with --skip-broken and --exclude mysql, installation succeeded
> 
> I believe the problem is, as you say, "what skip-broken does is run the
> yum depsolve with each package in the transaction". Meaning :
> - skip-broken sees MySQL-client, try to depsolve it
> - skip-broken sees requirement for libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit), try to
> find a package that provides it, found mysql. HOWEVER,
> - skip-broken didn't see that I also want to install
> MySQL-shared-compat, which also provides libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit)
> and would've been able to be installed nicely, because it runs on each
> package without looking at the entire line of package to be installed.
> 
> Is there a fix for this?
> 
> Regards,

I may have missed this from before but - what ver of skip-broken is it?

-sv