340305 – app-arch/rpm-4.8.1 DEPENDs on =sys-libs/db-4.5*, but does not link to it

Bug 340305 - app-arch/rpm-4.8.1 DEPENDs on =sys-libs/db-4.5*, but does not link to it

Summary: app-arch/rpm-4.8.1 DEPENDs on =sys-libs/db-4.5*, but does not link to it

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Stanislav Ochotnicky (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2010-10-10 00:00 UTC by Stelian Ionescu
Modified:	2011-04-24 15:57 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Stelian Ionescu 2010-10-10 00:00:07 UTC

RPM appears to link to the most recent version of sys-libs/db present on the system, instead:

~ # ldd $(which rpm) | grep db
        libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0x00007fa803464000)

Comment 1 Francis Galiegue 2010-10-24 08:47:54 UTC

I concur. I've been doing some research, and in the INSTALL file of the source, it says:

----
The Berkeley DB >= 4.3.x (4.5.x or newer recommended) is required for the
default database backend
----

So, I modified the ebuild in an overlay and changed the dependency "=sys-libs/db-4.5*" into ">=sys-libs/db-4.5". The result is an rpm binary linked against the same library as it was previously, and a fully functional rpm command (rpm -V, rpm -q, rpm -i, rpm -e, rpmbuild etc all work).

The ebuild should be modified for the dep above imho.

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-24 14:51:43 UTC

Fixed without revision bump.