Bug 474740

Summary: Unhelpful error message when installing an RPM for the wrong architecture
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Patrick Walton <pcwalton>
Component: gnome-packagekitAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: richard, robin.norwood
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Description Patrick Walton 2008-12-05 04:17:25 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111217 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.4

There's a usability problem when installing an RPM for the wrong architecture. The dialog box is as follows:

Local install failed
Installing the local file failed.
More information is available in the detailed report.
More details:
Can't install X.rpm

This will lead to confusion. A better error message would be something like "Incorrect architecture 'x86_64'. Please use a package with the architecture 'i386' instead."


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Download an RPM of the x86_64 architecture on the i386 architecture and try to install it by double-clicking on it.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2008-12-05 09:55:11 UTC 
Created attachment 325824 [details]
the patches in git

I've applied these patches to PackageKit and gnome-packagekit in git master. I can't backport this to 0.3.x as that branch is in string freeze right now. If you think it is required, I can re-use internal error, so the dialog is still unhelpful, but the error description is at least correct.