Bug 253652

Summary:	Yum attempting to install i386 packages when x86_64 packages are available causing package conflicts
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	-M <callihn>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	6	CC:	james.antill
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2007-08-21 14:20:53 UTC	Type:	---
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Description -M 2007-08-20 23:34:40 UTC

Updating from FC3 i386 (possibly others) to FC6 x86_64 seems to cause some
package conflict issues and in fact appears to break YUM.

I just updated from FC3 i386 to FC6 x86_64 and am having some odd problems
particularly with YUM at the moment.

First it would be nice if someone could give me an ideal as to what i386/i686
and noarch should be expected, as it's obvious that some of those are needed, I
guess for 32-bit compatibility, but which ones?

Second when running yum check-update all I'm getting back is i386 packages,
though checking with my web browser I see that shouldn't be the case as there
are several x86_64 packages in there, ElectricFence being just one.

This is also causing package conflict when trying to update packages using Yum,
so this may be related to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128268

I have even tried replacing $basearch in my core repo with x86_64 and that
didn't help, also uname -a returns Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
#1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So, could someone tell me what my problem is and how to fix it please?

Thanks

Forum thread active:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=164232

Comment 1 -M 2007-08-20 23:53:38 UTC

More info:

rpm -q ElectricFence
ElectricFence-2.2.2-20
ElectricFence-2.2.2-20.2.2

rpm -q ElectricFence --qf %{ARCH}
i386x86_64

yum check-update
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files

ElectricFence.i386                       2.2.2-22.fc6           updates         
GConf2.i386                              2.14.0-8.fc6           updates         
GConf2-devel.i386                        2.14.0-8.fc6           updates         
GeoIP.i386                               1.4.2-1.fc6            extras          
ImageMagick.i386                         6.2.8.0-4.fc6          updates         
ImageMagick-c++.i386                     6.2.8.0-4.fc6          updates         
ORBit.i386                               1:0.5.17-20.fc6        extras          
ORBit2.i386                              2.14.3-4.fc6           updates         
ORBit2-devel.i386                        2.14.3-4.fc6           updates         
PyQt.i386                                3.17-0.1.fc6           updates         
PyQt-devel.i386                          3.17-0.1.fc6           updates         
SDL.i386                                 1.2.11-1.fc6           updates         
SDL-devel.i386                           1.2.11-1.fc6           updates         
a2ps.i386                                4.13b-57.fc6.3         updates         
a52dec.i386                              0.7.4-8.fc6            freshrpms       
aalib.i386                               1.4.0-0.11.rc5.fc6     extras          
alsa-lib.i386                            1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6     updates         
alsa-lib-devel.i386                      1.0.14-0.1.rc1.fc6     updates         
alsa-tools.i386                          1.0.12-4.fc6           extras          
alsa-utils.i386                          1.0.14-0.2.rc1.fc6     updates         
alsamixergui.i386                        0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc6      extras          
anacron.i386                             2.3-44.fc6             updates         
apr-util.i386                            1.2.8-1.fc6            updates         
apt.i386                                 0.5.15lorg3.2-10.fc6   extras          
arts.i386                                8:1.5.7-0.1.fc6        updates         
arts-devel.i386                          8:1.5.7-0.1.fc6        updates         
at.i386                                  3.1.8-85.fc6           updates         
audacity.i386                            1.3.2-8.fc6            extras          
audit.i386                               1.4.2-5.fc6            updates         
audit-libs.i386                          1.4.2-5.fc6            updates         
audit-libs-python.i386                   1.4.2-5.fc6            updates         
authconfig.i386                          5.3.12-1.fc6           updates         
authconfig-gtk.i386                      5.3.12-1.fc6           updates         
autofs.i386                              1:5.0.1-0.rc3.33       updates         
avahi.i386                               0.6.16-4.fc6           updates         


Etc............

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-08-21 14:20:53 UTC

Upgrades across arches aren't at all supported.  And having packages of both
arches available is intentional so that you can continue to run x86 apps on your
x86_64 system.  There shouldn't be conflicts in the repo and if you have
specific problems, please file them against those packages.

Comment 3 -M 2007-08-21 16:21:52 UTC

The problem appears to be due to YUM not knowing it's arch, can you tell me
where it gets it's arch info from, please?