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     created <img src="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-610'>SSPCPP-610</a>
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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-610'><strong>libxerces-c-3_1 RPM package is obsoleting the &quot;xerces-c&quot; packaging, sometimes breaking standard package dependencies (on CentOS 6.4 e.g.)</strong></a>
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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="cantor.2@osu.edu" id="email_cantor.2@osu.edu" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=cantor.2%40osu.edu" style="color:#326ca6;">Scott Cantor</a>
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        03/Dec/13 8:54 AM
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        <p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>As mentioned in a comment on <a href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-582" title="scout RHEL/CentOS 6.5 for OpenSSL changes">SSPCPP-582</a>, the libxerces-c-3_1 RPM spec files currently include these <tt>Obsolete</tt> lines:</p>

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Obsoletes:  xerces-c &lt; %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes:  xerces-c-devel &lt; %{version}-%{release}
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>In some cases, this will break dependencies of packages which rely on the standard/obsoleted version - e.g. on CentOS 6.4, <tt>yum install xqilla</tt> will lead to this problem:</p>

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Resolving Dependencies
--&gt; Running transaction check
---&gt; Package xqilla.i686 0:2.2.3-8.el6 will be installed
--&gt; Processing Dependency: libxerces-c-3.0.so <span class="code-keyword">for</span> <span class="code-keyword">package</span>: xqilla-2.2.3-8.el6.i686
Package xerces-c-3.0.1-20.el6.i686 is obsoleted by libxerces-c-3_1-3.1.1-2.1.i686 which is already installed
--&gt; Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: xqilla-2.2.3-8.el6.i686 (base)
           Requires: libxerces-c-3.0.so
           Available: xerces-c-3.0.1-20.el6.i686 (base)
               libxerces-c-3.0.so
 You could <span class="code-keyword">try</span> using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could <span class="code-keyword">try</span> running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>AFAICT, you can't get out of this with another <tt>yum</tt> command, but it's possible to reinstall the "old" xerces-c package like so:</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'><tt>code</tt><br/>
rpm -Uvh <a href="http://.../xerces-c-3.0.1-20.el6.i686.rpm" class="external-link">http://.../xerces-c-3.0.1-20.el6.i686.rpm</a><br/>
<tt>code</tt></p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>after which the <tt>xqilla</tt> dependencies are satisfied again (i.e. xerces-c and libxerces-c-3_1 can coexist, as they do not have any conflicting files). If feasible, it would be better if libxerces-c-3_1 would not obsolete any xerces-c package, so that xerces-c is not removed when the Shibboleth SP RPMs are installed.</p>
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        <a style="color:#326ca6;" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP">Shibboleth SP - C++</a>
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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="zccx04fxbfekk/ldylvfqohcyf4=@https://aai-logon.switch.ch/idp/shibboleth" id="email_zccx04fxbfekk/ldylvfqohcyf4=@https://aai-logon.switch.ch/idp/shibboleth" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=zccx04fxbfekk%2Fldylvfqohcyf4%3D%40https%3A%2F%2Faai-logon.switch.ch%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth" style="color:#326ca6;">Kaspar Brand</a>
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