On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:53:09 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Michael Schwendt writes:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:50:25 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>
> > I assume this error is also an instance of the same problem:
> >
> > Error: Package: 2:samba-common-3.6.5-89.fc17.1.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
> > Requires: /usr/sbin/ldconfig
> > Removing: glibc-2.15-37.fc17.i686 (@fedora)
> > Not found
> > Updated By: glibc-2.15-48.fc17.i686 (updates-testing)
> > Not found
> > Error: Package: 2:libsmbclient-3.6.5-89.fc17.1.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
> > Requires: /usr/sbin/ldconfig
> > Removing: glibc-2.15-37.fc17.i686 (@fedora)
> > Not found
> > Updated By: glibc-2.15-48.fc17.i686 (updates-testing)
> > Not found
> >
> > ?
>
> No, that was due to hardcoded /usr/sbin/ldconfig paths:
Oh, yes it is the same problem, but in reverse.
Anyone who searches PATH will find /usr/sbin/ldconfig.
# whereis ldconfig
ldconfig: /sbin/ldconfig /usr/sbin/ldconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ldconfig.8.gz
/sbin is before /usr/sbin in $PATH. Even if the packager really ran "which
ldconfig" or similar, having forgotten that it's /sbin/ldconfig for years,
the result on Fedora 17 would have been "/sbin/ldconfig".
The following commit "Fix usrmove paths." (also see bug 829197)
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=3638a0bf...
assumed that lots of executables had moved from /bin and /sbin to
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin, which is not true for glibc's ldconfig yet.
glibc rpm installs /sbin/ldconfig.
Anything that uses PATH to find ldconfig, and uses it in any way that gets
sniffed out by find-requires, is going to cause a conflict with the next
glibc update. The package will install fine, but everything will come
crashing down, as soon as a mid-release glibc update shows up.
By definition, a "conflict" is something entirely different. What you
describe is a dependency issue, a weak/unsafe dependency, not a conflict.
The only reason everything hasn't come apart, by now, is because
everyone's
been hardcoding /sbin/ldconfig in their %post-s and %postun-s.
This is about Fedora 17, not Rawhide.
Admittedly,
# ll /usr/sbin/ldconfig
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 948296 May 11 05:28 /usr/sbin/ldconfig
can be misleading, but that is due to the /sbin -> usr/sbin symlink,
not $PATH.
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