On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
I've ran into a real problem where package A requires B, and B
requires A :
The current httpd and httpd-suexec packages from FC Development. I've just
installed FC Test from the latest ISOs, a minimal system, then did "yum
install httpd" from there. The problem is that during the transaction,
httpd-suexec (which got pulled in as a dependency) got installed first,
outputting the message "apache group doesn't exist, using root"... BAD!
Yes, the suexec binary is now sgid root on that system instead of sgid
apache.
Ouch :(
Now... I'm posting here before bugzilla'ing this since
I'd like to know
what the general opinion is regarding packages requiring some of their own
sub-packages like this. I really think it should be avoided since there are
some side-effects like this one that can arise. Furthermore, I don't get
why httpd-suexec nor php-mbstring (as another example) got split off... the
main purpose I can see for such cases is for the original package to be
overridden by another one providing the same functionality, like the X Mesa
libraries.
php-mbstring is not required by php in FC3, it's required in the FC2
update to avoid silently removing functionality during the update or a
later upgrade to FC3.
joe