Ngircd fails to install: nothing provides libident

Ask Fedora
1

It seems to me the ngircd package has a problem on Fedora 31:

# dnf repolist
repo id                       repo name
fedora                        Fedora 31 - x86_64
fedora-modular                Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64
updates                       Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular               Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 - Updates
# dnf --refresh install ngircd
Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64                       31 kB/s |  23 kB     00:00    
Fedora Modular 31 - x86_64 - Updates             28 kB/s |  21 kB     00:00    
Fedora 31 - x86_64 - Updates                     29 kB/s |  22 kB     00:00    
Fedora 31 - x86_64                               44 kB/s |  23 kB     00:00    
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libident.so.0()(64bit) needed by ngircd-25-3.fc31.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

Whether the problem is libident having been unintentionally removed from the repos or ngircd being built without ident support and the RPM not reflecting that or a misconfiguration of my system I have no idea, so Iā€™m asking here: Is there anybody who can tell me which one it is?

Best regards,
Steinar Knutsen

1 Like
2

Here you have two option (I suggest to you do both):

1.- Report a Bug against this package follow this procedure: How to file a bug :: Fedora Docs
2.- Install the dependency from fedora 28: libident-0.32-17.fc28 | Build Info | koji

and try againā€¦

NOTE:

  • 28 is the latest build State complete
  • 29 State failed
  • 30 State failed
  • 31 State failed

Regards.,

2 Likes
3

Hello.

This is happening with a few packages of Fedora 31, for example with eclipse-m2-core or hibernate-core. I filled a bug in Red Hat Bugzilla about the impossibility to install hibernate-core (1770537 ā€“ Hibernate can't be installed) and look at their answer:

As no package depends on hibernate and class mvn(org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations) is already orphaned, we are aiming to orphan also hibernate package. If you have a reason, that hibernate should stay in fedora, let us know please.

Funny thing if you take into account that Hibernate is a framework owned by Red Hat and is integrated in their JBoss/Wildfly application server. :thinking:

Regards.

4

I just hope itā€™s not the start of a trend. Iā€™ve used RH/Fedora for many years, partly because its package repo is huge, and it has little bit rot and at the same time pretty fresh packages. Thatā€™s really quite rare. ā€œBreak, wait, removeā€ is not exactly the ideal way to EOL a package.