Bug 469271

Summary:	yum ia64 no longer supports i386/i686/etc.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	James Antill <james.antill>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jan Hutař <jhutar>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.3	CC:	dkovalsk, jhutar, lockhart, notting, riek, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression
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Description James Antill 2008-10-30 23:31:42 UTC

Description of problem:
 Since yum-3.2.10 or so upstream yum no longer supports anything but ia64 and noarch packages on ia64 (on the advise of Fedora people), but RHEL-5 still ships at least .i386 and .i686 packages in the ia64 RHN channels.

 Changing this is a trivial one line fix, but this BZ is mainly a "which is right" (I'm guessing RHEL/RHN) ... but also so I can get the flags to fix it.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2008-10-30 23:59:28 UTC

This bugzilla has Keywords: Regression.  

Since no regressions are allowed between releases, 
it is also being proposed as a blocker for this release.  

Please resolve ASAP.

Comment 2 James Antill 2008-10-31 12:52:18 UTC

*** Bug 469343 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 James Antill 2008-10-31 12:55:14 UTC

 Also with respect to:

diff -u /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py{.orig,}
--- /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py.orig 2008-10-31
07:38:13.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/arch.py 2008-10-31
07:38:44.000000000 -0400
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
     "sh3": "noarch",

     #itanium
-    "ia64": "noarch",
+    "ia64": "i386",
     }

 def legitMultiArchesInSameLib(arch=None):

...I assume we need the above to be i686 so we can get the glibc/openssl .i686 packages?

Comment 4 Jan Hutař 2008-10-31 13:28:04 UTC

Hello Denis, what are correct secondary archs for ia64 RHEL-5 system? Is i386 and noarch enough?
Thank you in advance,
Jan

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-31 16:24:43 UTC

I'd think just a patch to revert rpmUtils/arch.py to prior should be fine; there's no need to worry about optimizations w.r.t. i686.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 21:44:30 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0176.html