Lustre discuss - Jan 2008 - e2fsprogs-1.40.2.cfs5-0redhat.x86_64.rpm install conflicts with e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-10.el5.rpm

I am working with CentOS 5 and e2fsprogs-1.40.2.cfs5-0redhat.x86_64.rpm.

I had to build the rpm myself from the source rpm as the version on the
distribution site is built with db4-4.2 and the CentOS distro comes with
db4-4.3.  Not a concern there.

However when I go to install the RPM with the --upgrade option it complains that
there is a conflict with e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-10.el5.rpm

Is there a newer version of the libs as well?  I did a --force on the install to
proceed, but I am concerned that this may cause more problems.

What is the correct solution?

Thank you!

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Andrew Lundgren

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On Jan 10, 2008  09:58 -0700, Lundgren, Andrew wrote:
> I am working with CentOS 5 and e2fsprogs-1.40.2.cfs5-0redhat.x86_64.rpm.
> 
> I had to build the rpm myself from the source rpm as the version on the
distribution site is built with db4-4.2 and the CentOS distro comes with
db4-4.3.  Not a concern there.
> 
> However when I go to install the RPM with the --upgrade option it complains
that there is a conflict with e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-10.el5.rpm
> 
> Is there a newer version of the libs as well?  I did a --force on the
install to proceed, but I am concerned that this may cause more problems.
> 
> What is the correct solution?
It seems the newer versions of the distros are splitting up e2fsprogs in
order to allow the component libraries (libcom_err, libblkid, libuuid)
to be installed separately from the e2fsprogs tools (e2fsck, mke2fs, etc).

You could add a couple lines to the redhat section of e2fsprogs.spec.in
so that rpm knows to remove that library when doing an upgrade:

Obsoletes: e2fsprogs-libs < %{version}
Provides: e2fsprogs-libs = %{version} ldiskfsprogs

Please let me know if this works, and I can add it to the next release.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

I finally had a chance to get in and make this change to the rpm.

It turns out that e2fsprogs-1.40.2.cfs5 already has the line in the spec.in
file.  It does not make it into the build spec file however.  I didn''t
investigate why it didn''t show up.  But I added it to the SPEC/*.spec
file manually and rebuilt the RPM.

The RPM produced this way does correctly update the e2fsprogs-libs RPM on the
CentOS box.  So I don''t know why it doesn''t make it from the
spec.in file, but once it does, it will solve the problem.
> -----Original Message-----
>
> It seems the newer versions of the distros are splitting up
> e2fsprogs in order to allow the component libraries
> (libcom_err, libblkid, libuuid) to be installed separately
> from the e2fsprogs tools (e2fsck, mke2fs, etc).
>
> You could add a couple lines to the redhat section of
> e2fsprogs.spec.in so that rpm knows to remove that library
> when doing an upgrade:
>
> Obsoletes: e2fsprogs-libs < %{version}
> Provides: e2fsprogs-libs = %{version} ldiskfsprogs
>
> Please let me know if this works, and I can add it to the
> next release.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
>