gpg dependency issues (krb5 & klogd)

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:59:23AM -0700, Shawn Protsman wrote:
> I am running SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 on an iSeries
> (Power5 chipset) server:
> 
> > uname -a
> 
> Linux l336649e_pub 2.6.5-7.139-pseries64 #1 SMP Fri
> Jan 14 15:41:33 UTC
> 2005 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
> 
> The installed version of gpg is 1.2.4.  I would like
> to update the system to 1.4.x.
> 
> gpg 1.4 was not available via yast so I downloaded
> gpg-1.4.0-4.src.rpm from the SuSE 9.3 tree.  Upon
> rebuilding the RPM I get the following:
> 
> > rpmbuild --rebuild gpg-1.4.0-4.src.rpm
> Installing gpg-1.4.0-4.src.rpm
> error: Failed build dependencies:
>         klogd is needed by gpg-1.4.0-4
>         krb5 is needed by gpg-1.4.0-4

This is a SuSE specific issue.  GnuPG does not require Kerberos or the
kernel logger daemon (which is a Linux specific thing anyway).  I
don't know why they have those marked as requirements in the RPM.

David