Bug 766821

I don't see this problem on my x86_64 machine. Both downgrade (2.0.94-5.2.el6 ->2.0.94-5.el6) and upgrade (2.0.94-5.el6 ->2.0.94-5.2.el6 ) of all libselinux packages are successful.

Which version of yum do you have?

Reporter,

Is it possible that  libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.i686 (notice the ".2" part) is missing from your repo (or was missing at the time you attempted the transaction) ? What happens when you try 'yum update libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.i686' ?

Yum by default won't let you install .x86_64 and .i686 version of the same package in different versions and the error seems to be because a more recent version of x86_64 than of i686 was found.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter,
> 
> Is it possible that  libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.i686 (notice the ".2" part) is
> missing from your repo (or was missing at the time you attempted the
> transaction) ? What happens when you try 'yum update
> libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.i686' ?

The 32 bit version hasn't been and isn't installed on my 64 bit systems.  It wasn't required. 

[root@ ~]# yum update libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.i686
Package(s) libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.i686 available, but not installed.


> Yum by default won't let you install .x86_64 and .i686 version of the same
> package in different versions and the error seems to be because a more recent
> version of x86_64 than of i686 was found.

And that's the issue.  I can't remove 64 bit libselinux without breaking or removing a bunch of needed packages and I can't add the 32 bit version because the 64 bit version is installed.  Joy :)
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A snip from the "Additional Info:" section above:

Error: Package: libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.el6.x86_64
(@rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6)
           Requires: libselinux = 2.0.94-5.el6
           Removing: libselinux-2.0.94-5.el6.x86_64

It looks like libselinux-ruby from the server-optional software channel is requiring the 32 bit version of libselinux.  This could be where the bug is....

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't see this problem on my x86_64 machine. Both downgrade (2.0.94-5.2.el6
> ->2.0.94-5.el6) and upgrade (2.0.94-5.el6 ->2.0.94-5.2.el6 ) of all libselinux
> packages are successful.

Do you have libselinux-ruby installed from the server-optional sofware channel?

> Which version of yum do you have?

[root@dropbox ~]# rpm -qa|grep yum
yum-3.2.29-22.el6.noarch

According to yum everything on my rhel6 64 bit systems are up to date, except for:

libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6
libselinux-utils-2.0.94-5.2.el6

I think these should either be noarch or 64 bit packages.  I'm not sure why libselinux-ruby 64 bit is requiring a 32 bit package, especially since the 32 and 64 bit packages can't exist on the same system.

I am not seeing this on my RHEL6 box.  I just installed libselinux-ruby without installing libselinux.i386

Can you remove libseinux-ruby, do the upgrade and then reinstall it from the new package.

(In reply to comment #7)
> Can you remove libseinux-ruby, do the upgrade and then reinstall it from the
> new package.

* I removed libselinux-ruby 64 bit.  
* Ran "yum update" and it installed the 64 bit versions of libselinux and 
  libselinux-utils. 
* I was then able to successfully install libselinux-ruby 64 bit.

Thanks for your help Daniel.

I guess we fixed some kind of requires problem in this update, but I am not sure what.