Bug 502401

Summary:	yum picks older arch pkg instead of newer noarch one
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, kevin, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Rex Dieter 2009-05-24 20:49:15 UTC

yum-3.2.22-5.fc11.noarch

we recently made the largish qt-doc pkg noarch (currently in updates-testing).

yum install qt-doc
chooses the older arch'd one.

Here's snippet from
yum -d10 install qt-doc
...
Setting up Install Process
Running compare_providers() for [<YumAvailablePackageSqlite : 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64 (0x2165290)>, <YumAvailablePackageSqlite : 1:qt-doc-4.5.1-11.fc11.noarch (0x2165350)>]
archdist compared 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64 to 1:qt-doc-4.5.1-11.fc11.noarch on ia32e
  Winner: 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64
better arch in po 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64
archdist compared 1:qt-doc-4.5.1-11.fc11.noarch to 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64 on ia32e
  Winner: 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64
Best Order: [(<YumAvailablePackageSqlite : 1:qt-doc-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64 (0x2165290)>, -1), (<YumAvailablePackageSqlite : 1:qt-doc-4.5.1-11.fc11.noarch (0x2165350)>, -6)]
...

Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-05-28 19:45:03 UTC

okay, the problem here is that yum is not comparing these two pkgs against each other b/c they are not the same arch but it really needs to be b/c for this situation these are arch-comparable.

Just to be sure - there isn't a qt-doc.i386 installed/existent, too is there?

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-05-28 21:14:28 UTC

no qt-doc.i386 on x86_64 anyway (not multilib'd).

Comment 3 seth vidal 2009-05-30 03:28:27 UTC

an obvious work around for the moment - make the new noarch pkg obsolete the old version of the same.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2009-05-30 17:31:37 UTC

ok, I'll try that.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 16:29:57 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2009-06-17 00:12:20 UTC

Let's take this off the Qt451 blocker as we worked around it in our Qt packaging (with the self-Obsoletes hack), but I'm adding it to F12Target as it's impacting the NoarchSubpackages feature.

Comment 7 seth vidal 2009-06-17 22:20:14 UTC

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=fca0df2c7c42bb1d674f2de79385624a17db7d09

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-09-03 19:33:51 UTC

yum-3.2.24-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.24-1.fc11

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-09-30 01:37:38 UTC

yum-3.2.24-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-10-19 16:44:41 UTC

yum-3.2.24-2.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.24-2.fc10

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2009-11-04 12:04:56 UTC

yum-3.2.24-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.