Bug 147972

Summary:	Freshen fails when there's two architectures of files being freshened
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kaj J. Niemi <kajtzu>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Kaj J. Niemi 2005-02-14 12:08:31 UTC

Description of problem:
Fails:
% rpm -Fvh *.rpm
warning: package glibc = 2.3.4-10 was already added, skipping glibc < 2.3.4-10
error: error reading from file glibc-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm

Works (no i386.rpm in the list):
rpm -Fvh glibc-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm glibc-headers-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm
glibc-profile-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm glibc-utils-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm
nptl-devel-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm nscd-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.1-0.22.i386

How reproducible:
Looks like always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make sure there's a few files that need to be refreshened with different
architectures (say, i386, i686)
2. rpm -Fvh *.rpm
  
Actual results:
Fails

Expected results:
Shouldn't fail, this has worked since a long time :)

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2005-02-14 16:35:25 UTC

Heh, "worked since a long time" is not at all the
same thing as correct. Several flaws have been fixed
in rpm-4.4.1 to exclude user/application errors seloecting
packages, choosing the latest package of the same name and arch in
rpmtsAddInstallElement().

--freshen is a very differnt problem case, and is broken in
several ways (i.e. epoch is not looked at, multilib choices
are not attempted, +/-NPTL wrto glibc not attempted).

I'd suggest using more specific input to rpm by doing
    ls -1 *.rpm
and filtering the package list appropriately.

Your final list can be fed firectly to rpm as
   rpm -Fvh manifest
rather than the splat you've been using.