Bug 17726 - nettle2.7 & nettle binary file conflicts - missing package conflicts
Summary: nettle2.7 & nettle binary file conflicts - missing package conflicts
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2016-02-10 12:12 CET by claire robinson
Modified: 2016-02-12 00:13 CET (History)
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Description claire robinson 2016-02-10 12:12:11 CET 
Nettle & nettle2.7 should conflict to avoid file conflicts.
Cauldron is not affected as nettle2.7 is obsoleted.

$ urpmq --conflicts nettle2.7
$ urpmq --conflicts nettle

File conflicts, eg.

$ urpmf /usr/bin/nettle-hash
nettle2.7:/usr/bin/nettle-hash
nettle:/usr/bin/nettle-hash

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Comment 1 claire robinson 2016-02-10 12:12:33 CET 
See update in bug 17669
Comment 2 David Walser 2016-02-12 00:13:11 CET 
How this happened:

- nettle was updated to 3.0 during mga5 development cycle
- everything using nettle broke because they didn't support 3.0
- nettle2.7 package was created
- nettle (3.0) which wasn't used by anything was not removed (it should have been)

So, technically this is a bug and the packages should explicitly conflict, but nobody in reality will hit this issue as nothing uses nettle (3.0) in mga5 and it shouldn't have even been packaged.  In Cauldron (mga6) everything has been ported to nettle 3.x and nettle2.7 is no longer packaged, so nobody will have an issue when upgrading.  The nettle package in mga6 obsoletes nettle2.7 to ensure this.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX
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