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Bug 1337766

Summary:

yum update path/to/*.rpm fails with a transaction

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Reporter:

Alois Mahdal <amahdal>

Component:

yum

Assignee:

Valentina Mukhamedzhanova <vmukhame>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>

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unspecified

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unspecified

Version:

6.8

CC:

james.antill

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2017-12-06 10:37:13 UTC

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Description Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:03:54 UTC

Description of problem
======================

A certain upgrade around preupgrade-assistant packages cannot be done using
`yum localupdate path/to/rpms/*.rpm`, but can be, using repo created using
createrepo and `file://` protocol.

Here is the transcript:

    [root@sheep-41 ~]# rpm -qa \*upgrade\* | grep -v CoreOS | sort
    preupgrade-assistant-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-contents-0.6.41-2.el6.noarch
    preupgrade-assistant-debuginfo-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch
    [root@sheep-41 ~]# ll ipu-brewinstall/
    total 8012
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  207496 May  6 00:46 preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  351912 May  6 00:46 preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-0.6.49-1.el6.noarch.rpm
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1511540 May  6 00:46 preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data-0.20160505-1.el6.noarch.rpm
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   34928 May  6 00:46 preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5990068 May  6 00:46 preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   95536 May  6 00:46 redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch.rpm
    [root@sheep-41 ~]# yum update ipu-brewinstall/*
    Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
    This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
    Setting up Update Process
    Examining ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm: preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch
    Marking ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm as an update to preupgrade-assistant-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    Examining ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-0.6.49-1.el6.noarch.rpm: preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-0.6.49-1.el6.noarch
    Package preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7 not installed, cannot update it. Run yum install to install it instead.
    Examining ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data-0.20160505-1.el6.noarch.rpm: preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data-0.20160505-1.el6.noarch
    Package preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data not installed, cannot update it. Run yum install to install it instead.
    Examining ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm: preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch
    Marking ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm as an update to preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    Examining ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm: preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch
    Marking ipu-brewinstall/preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch.rpm as an update to preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    Examining ipu-brewinstall/redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch.rpm: 1:redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch
    ipu-brewinstall/redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package.
    Resolving Dependencies
    --> Running transaction check
    ---> Package preupgrade-assistant.x86_64 0:2.1.1-5.el6 will be updated
    --> Processing Dependency: preupgrade-assistant = 2.1.1 for package: preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    ---> Package preupgrade-assistant.x86_64 0:2.1.1-5.el6 will be obsoleted
    --> Processing Dependency: preupgrade-assistant = 2.1.1 for package: preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    ---> Package preupgrade-assistant.noarch 0:2.1.6-5.el6 will be obsoleting
    ---> Package preupgrade-assistant-tools.x86_64 0:2.1.1-5.el6 will be obsoleted
    ---> Package preupgrade-assistant-tools.x86_64 0:2.1.1-5.el6 will be updated
    ---> Package preupgrade-assistant-tools.noarch 0:2.1.6-5.el6 will be obsoleting
    --> Finished Dependency Resolution
    Error: Package: preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64 (@brew-build-repo-8R9)
               Requires: preupgrade-assistant = 2.1.1
               Removing: preupgrade-assistant-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64 (@brew-build-repo-8R9)
                   preupgrade-assistant = 2.1.1-5.el6
               Obsoleted By: preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch (/preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch)
                   preupgrade-assistant = 2.1.6-5.el6
               Updated By: preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch (/preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch)
                   preupgrade-assistant = 2.1.6-5.el6
     You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
     You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
    [root@sheep-41 ~]# 

See below for details.


Version-Release number of selected component
============================================

yum-3.2.29-73.el6


How reproducible
================

At times


Steps to Reproduce
==================

See info below for details on "old" vs. "new"

 1. install old RPMs (by `yum install path/to/*.rpm`)

 2. install new RPMs using `yum update /path/to/directory/*`


Actual results
==============

Failure as can be seen above

What *did* work, though, is this:

 *  installing using `rpm -U /path/to/directory/*`

 *  creating custom repo and installing via yum from there.

so the transaction is possible with given RPMs.


Expected results
================

 *  upgraded:    preupgrade-assistant
 *  installed:   preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7
 *  installed:   preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data
 *  removed:     preupgrade-assistant-contents
 *  kept as is:  redhat-upgrade-tool


Additional info
===============

There are 2 significant changes done between these releases,
so the transaction is not trivial.  Here are exact versions
and notes:


## Old versions ###

    preupgrade-assistant-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-debuginfo-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.1-5.el6.x86_64
    preupgrade-assistant-contents-0.6.41-2.el6.noarch
    redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch

Notice:

 *  p-a is arch-specific
 *  there's this "-contents" component (modules for p-a)


## New versions ###

    preupgrade-assistant-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch
    preupgrade-assistant-tools-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch
    preupgrade-assistant-ui-2.1.6-5.el6.noarch
    preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-0.6.49-1.el6.noarch
    preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data-0.20160505-1.el6.noarch
    redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.43-1.el6.noarch

Notice:

 *  p-a is now **noarch**
 *  -contents is no more
 *  instead, there are -el6toel7 and -el6toel7-data (separate
    components


### Changes ###

 *  We replaced -contents with 2 separate noarch, single-RPM
    components:

     *  preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7
     *  preupgrade-assistant-el6toel7-data

 *  We converted preupgrade-assistant to a noarch component

 *  redhat-upgrade-tool has not changed

Comment 1 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:13:29 UTC

(In reply to Alois Mahdal from comment #0)
[...]
> 
> How reproducible
> ================
> 
> At times

...I mean, Always with this transaction.

Comment 2 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:26:09 UTC

Created attachment 1159783 [details]
without repo - stderr

Comment 3 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:26:38 UTC

Created attachment 1159784 [details]
without repo - stdout

Comment 4 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:27:07 UTC

Created attachment 1159785 [details]
with repo - stderr

Comment 5 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:27:31 UTC

Created attachment 1159786 [details]
with repo - stdout

Comment 6 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:28:13 UTC

Created attachment 1159787 [details]
yum debug log

Comment 7 Alois Mahdal 2016-05-20 03:30:46 UTC

Note that attachments I have posted are from RHEL6.7, ie. older yum.

Comment 11 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 10:37:13 UTC

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