Bug 853261

I am not sure why i686 is even showing up on any of the mirrors. There should be no 32-bit java-1.6.0-* or java-1.7.0-* in the x86_64 repos.

Changing component to distribution.

Fedora 17 is also afflicted.

Not having equal updates for i686 and x86_64 can also trip the multilib checking:

$ sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.i686
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, downloadonly, langpacks, presto
fedora/metalink                                                                                            |  33 kB     00:00     
fedora                                                                                                     | 4.2 kB     00:00     
google-chrome                                                                                              |  951 B     00:00     
updates/metalink                                                                                           |  21 kB     00:00     
updates                                                                                                    | 4.7 kB     00:00     
(1/2): fedora/primary_db                                                                                   |  14 MB     00:06     
(2/2): updates/primary_db                                                                                  | 6.7 MB     00:01     
google-chrome/primary                                                                                      | 1.4 kB     00:00     
fedora/group_gz                                                                                            | 434 kB     00:00     
updates/group_gz                                                                                           | 435 kB     00:00     
google-chrome                                                                                                                 3/3
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.i686 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: java-1.7.0-openjdk = 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 for package: 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libjli.so(SUNWprivate_1.1) for package: 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.i686
--> Processing Dependency: libjli.so for package: 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 will be installed
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686 1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
       pointing it that there is a problem. Eg.:
       
         1. You have an upgrade for java-1.7.0-openjdk which is missing some
            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
            solve this by installing an older version of java-1.7.0-openjdk of the
            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
            requires what).
       
         2. You have multiple architectures of java-1.7.0-openjdk installed, but
            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
            can remove the one with the missing update and everything
            will work.
       
         3. You have duplicate versions of java-1.7.0-openjdk installed already.
            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
       
       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
       much more problems).
       
       Protected multilib versions: 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.x86_64 != 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1.i686

$ yum --showduplicates list *openjdk-devel*
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, downloadonly, langpacks, presto
Available Packages
java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.i686                                     1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6                                     fedora 
java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64                                   1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6                                     fedora 
java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64                                   1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1                                   updates


Parallel install of the old 1.7.0.3 version can be achieved with the following:

$ yum install --disable-repo=updates java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.i686

However, subsequent yum updates of Java will fail:

yum update java*
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, downloadonly, langpacks, presto
No Match for argument: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.3.x86_64
No package java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.3.x86_64 available.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: java-1.7.0-openjdk = 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 for package: 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.i686
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 will be updated
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686 1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1 will be an update
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1 will be an update
--> Running transaction check
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.i686 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 will be updated
---> Package java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64 1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

==================================================================================================================================
 Package                                 Arch                  Version                               Repository              Size
==================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 java-1.7.0-openjdk                      i686                  1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1                updates                 26 M
 java-1.7.0-openjdk                      x86_64                1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1                updates                 25 M
Updating for dependencies:
 java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel                x86_64                1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.fc17.1                updates                9.1 M

Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================================================
Upgrade  2 Packages (+1 Dependent package)

Total size: 60 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
ERROR with transaction check vs depsolve:
java-1.7.0-openjdk = 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 is needed by (installed) java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.i686
java-1.7.0-openjdk = 1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6 is needed by (installed) java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1:1.7.0.3-2.1.fc17.6.i686
Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=yum
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Your transaction was saved, rerun it with:
 yum load-transaction /tmp/yum_save_tx.2012-11-06.18-57.gir0uX.yumtx

Created attachment 639506 [details]
Failed transaction from above listing

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