Bug 102522

I should add that I have additional RPMs (for example all the "missing" *-devel
packages) installed. This should not matter, just thought I should mention it ...

*** Bug 103156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

On the same machine (bash is still listed in up2date ...), updated to Beta 2
(up2date-3.9.12-1), I now have the same problem with redhat-config-securitylevel
(1.2.4-1).

Created attachment 109491 [details]
up2date -u output

Another person who had problems similar to this determined that somehow multiple
versions of the same rpm were installed, causing this problem. Can you check if
there are multiple via rpm -q on the package name?

If there are multiple, and you are not on a system with multilib (ie, x86_64 can
have both x86_64 and i386 packages), it's possible that at some point an update
or install of rpms didn't finish, so they were both left there.

Because it's possible the newer one didn't actually finish installing (based on
the likely reason that the two versions are there), I'd remove that one, and try
the update again.

I am having a similar problem when attempting to up2date a fresh install of
RHEL3/i386 update 6.  The conflict happens with the
openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.2.0.EL3 package.  That exact package is on the update 6
CD's, but up2date still tries to upgrade it, which fails.  I went through the
redhat-users and bugzilla archives and I saw that others have seen this problem
with an earlier update on x86_64, but my problem is happening with the vanilla
i386 update 6 release.  The solution presented in RHBA-2005:650 does not work
for me since the rpm presented there is identical to the one on the ISO's right
down to the md5's.  Here is some output:

[root@localhost root]# rpm -q openoffice.org
openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.2.0.EL3
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q --obsoletes openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.2.0.EL3
openoffice
openoffice.org-style-gnome
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version}-${release}.${arch}\n"
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.2.0.EL3.i386
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.2.3-24_nonptl
[root@localhost root]# rpm -q up2date
up2date-4.4.44-3

Steps to reproduce:
1) install RHEL3 ES update 6 using the "everything" selector from the ISO's on
rhn.redhat.com
2) after the install reboot, register the server, and run up2date -u

Please let me know if you need any more information to debug this problem. 
Thanks much.

Created attachment 123755 [details]
i386 up2date -u output

Is this still an open bug?

Trying to work out these as well as other up2date issues

This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
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