The recent openoffice errata (1.1.2-24.2.0.EL3) is broken on the x86_64 platform. Its a packaging bug and its breaking up2date from keeping the system updated. So this is a complete show stopper. openoffice (arch = i386 of course) requires bonobo-activation. The x86_64 version of bonono-activation is already installed and up2date attempts to install the i386 version. The two versions have conflicting files. up2date refuses to install.
This update was originally intended to go out as the RHEL3 U5 update, but got rolled into the security fix... which was probably my fault. Looking into how to proceed... RHEL3 U5 should be out in about 2 weeks which should fix the problem fully, but we'll need an interim solution most likely.
bonobo-activation did get rebuilt in U5 for multilib issues, but I can't see anything in particular in the specfile that would seem to fix the man file conflict. Jack: Can you paste in the up2date message that you get for the conflicting files?
[root@testing-1 root]# up2date -u Invalid group id server-cfg Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-3... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- openoffice.org 1.1.2 24.2.0.EL3 i386 openoffice.org-i18n 1.1.2 24.2.0.EL3 i386 openoffice.org-libs 1.1.2 24.2.0.EL3 i386 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## RPM package conflict error. The message was: Test install failed because of package conflicts: The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Name Version Release -------------------------------------------------------------- bonobo-activation 2.2.2 1 gnome-vfs2 2.2.5 2E.1 libbonobo 2.2.3 1 file /usr/share/man/man1/bonobo-activation-server.1.gz from install of bonobo-activation-2.2.2-1 conflicts with file from package bonobo-activation-2.2.2-1
*** Bug 156707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Relevant people know the details of the situation and are resolving it at this time, most likely by pushing the U5 bonobo-activation RPMs early.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-428.html