rhel5 package of Percona-server-shared 5.6.16 doesn't provide mysql-shared

[Gavin Towey]

This looks like an oversight:

sudo rpm -q --provides -p Percona-Server-shared-56-5.6.16-rel64.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
libmysqlclient.so.18()(64bit)
libperconaserverclient.so.18()(64bit)
libperconaserverclient.so.18(libperconaserverclient_18)(64bit)
Percona-Server-shared-56 = 5.6.16-rel64.2.el5

Compare to the package for 5.6.15 of rhel6:

 rpm -q --provides -p Percona-Server-shared-56-5.6.15-rel63.0.519.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
libmysqlclient.so.18()(64bit)
libmysqlclient.so.18(libmysqlclient_16)(64bit)
libmysqlclient.so.18(libmysqlclient_18)(64bit)
libmysqlclient.so.18(libmysqlclient_18_1)(64bit)
mysql-libs
mysql-shared
Percona-Server-shared-56 = 5.6.15-rel63.0.519.rhel6
Percona-Server-shared-56(x86-64) = 5.6.15-rel63.0.519.rhel6

This means yum fails to find the right package to satisfy dependencies and the installation can fail on other packages which depend on mysql-shared.

[Raghavendra D Prabhu (raghavendra-prabhu)]

@Gavin,

Can you provide packages which are failing due to this? Packages
depending on libmysqlclient.so.* have dependencies auto-generated
by RPM and as a result they have dependencies like "libperconaserverclient.so.18()(64bit)"

Problem with 'mysql-shared' is that it can denote a wide range of
libraries from libmysqlclient.so.16 to libmysqlclient.so.18.1, so
needs to be quantified with version as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Percona Server 5.6 because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-3127