[Yum] yum doesn't look for provides on packages to be installed

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

Hi,

I'm trying to install MySQL (from MySQL.com's binary) from a local
repository

# yum -d1 install MySQL-shared MySQL-shared-compat MySQL-client MySQL-server

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 MySQL-client            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
350 k
 MySQL-server            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql             
15 M
 MySQL-shared-compat     x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
3.1 M
Installing for dependencies:
 mysql                   x86_64     5.0.22-2.1.0.1   updates           3.0 M
 perl-DBI                x86_64     1.52-1.fc6       base              605 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      5 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 22 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package mysql conflicts with MySQL.


That's not right.
Upon further checking, MySQL-client requires :
libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit)
libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit)

which is provided by both mysql and MySQL-shared
I understand that yum will search for shortest package name to look for
providing package, but in this case I specified that I want to install
MySQL-shared on the command line. Shouldn't that be processed first?
Seeing that MySQL-shared is on command line, shouldn't it chose that
instead of mysql?

Excluding mysql works as expected.

# yum -d1 install MySQL-shared MySQL-shared-compat MySQL-client
MySQL-server --exclude mysql

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 MySQL-client            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
350 k
 MySQL-server            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql             
15 M
 MySQL-shared-compat     x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
3.1 M
Installing for dependencies:
 MySQL-shared            x86_64     5.0.45-0.glibc23  mysql            
1.7 M
 perl-DBI                x86_64     1.52-1.fc6       base              605 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      5 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 21 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
warning: perl-DBI-1.52-1.fc6: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
37017186
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h lbkaret2.telkomhosting.com password
'new-password'
See the manual for more instructions.
Please report any problems with the /usr/bin/mysqlbug script!

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Starting MySQL..[  OK  ]
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information.

Installed: MySQL-client.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 MySQL-server.x86_64
0:5.0.45-0.glibc23 MySQL-shared-compat.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23
Dependency Installed: MySQL-shared.x86_64 0:5.0.45-0.glibc23
perl-DBI.x86_64 0:1.52-1.fc6

Using RHEL5/yum-3.2.5

Regards,

Fajar
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