Bug #1610 RPM dependencies for embedded server.

• Submitted: 20 Oct 2003 9:37
• Modified: 21 Nov 2003 4:24
• Reporter: Scott Harrison
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Server: Installing
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 4.0.15
• OS: Linux (RedHat 9.0)
• Assigned to: Lenz Grimmer
• CPU Architecture: Any

[20 Oct 2003 9:37] Scott Harrison

Description:
When trying to install
MySQL-embedded-4.0.15-0.i386.rpm
it requested that I also install
MySQL-devel-4.0.15-0.i386.rpm
which makes sense.

MySQL-devel, however, is set to
depend upon MySQL-client.  Thus,
MySQL-embedded transitively
requires that MySQL-client be
installed.

It should not be the case that
I have to install MySQL-client in
order to install MySQL-embedded.

It is a serious problem when dependencies
are miscoded.

How to repeat:
Download the MySQL-client, MySQL-devel, and
MySQL-embedded RPMs from a mirror for
version 4.0.15.

Suggested fix:
MySQL-devel does not logically need to require MySQL-client.

[21 Nov 2003 4:24] Lenz Grimmer

Thanks for the suggestion - this will now be fixed for all upcoming
releases (4.0.17 and onwards)