Why does at least the percona-server-server-8.4 depend on the obsolete net-tools package

zigi · February 9, 2025, 6:05pm

Hello,

Why does at least the percona-server-server-8.4.3-3.1.el9.x86_64 RPM package depend on the obsolete net-tools package (on obsolete tools like arp, ifconfig, route, etc.)?

PS: There is no subcategory for Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 or LTS, so I hope I’m asking in the right place.

Thank you in advance and best regards
Karel Ziegler

Vadim_Yalovets · February 10, 2025, 9:30am

Hi Karel,

Upstream mysql package requires it.

github.com/mysql/mysql-server

packaging/rpm-oel/mysql.spec.in

8.4


      
          news and information about the MySQL software. Also please see the
          documentation and the manual for more information.
          
          %package        server
          Summary:        A very fast and reliable SQL database server
          Group:          Applications/Databases
          Requires:       coreutils
          Requires:       grep
          Requires:       procps
          Requires:       shadow-utils
          Requires:       net-tools
          %if 0%{?with_openssl3_fips}
          Requires:       openssl3-fips
          %endif
          Requires:       %{name}-client%{?_isa} >= %{min}
          Requires:       %{name}-common%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
          Requires:       %{name}-icu-data-files = %{version}-%{release}
          %if 0%{?commercial}
          Obsoletes:      mysql-commercial-bench < 5.7.8
          Obsoletes:      mysql-commercial-embedded < 8.0.1
          Obsoletes:      mysql-commercial-embedded-devel < 8.0.1

As soon as the dependency is changed then it will be changed accordingly in our packages.

zigi · February 10, 2025, 10:52pm

Hi @Vadim_Yalovets,

Thanks for the direction, I tried to ask on MySQL forum.

Best regards,
zigi

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