qemu package in EPEL is conflicting with the RHEL qemu package. Is the idea here to provide a version in EPEL for ppc64? If so, please follow: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging?rd=Packaging:EPEL#Limited_Arch_Packages If the idea is to provide a qemu package that provides things RHEL does not, please make it not conflict or overlap RHEL. At the very least I am seeing: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/qemu-img.1.gz from install of qemu-img-2:1.2.0-19.el6.1.i686 conflicts with file from package qemu-img-2:0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.2.x86_64 which should get fixed. ;)
From what we see here, the qemu-img package from EPEL tries to replace the qemu-img package from RHEL - which is inacceptable!
--> Processing Dependency: qemu-img = 2:0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.2 for package: 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.2.x86_64 ---> Package qemu-img.i686 2:1.2.0-19.el6.1 will be an update
I need help with this. Is it somehow possible to blacklist qemu-img.i686 from being propagated into epel/x86_64 repository?
Why is that package being built at all? I think that package should be simply just conditional within the *.spec file by using %{?rhel} and %if(n)arch macro.
Robert, it is in fact conditional and not built in EPEL/x86_64. In RHEL/i686 qemu-img is not available, unlike in RHEL/x86_64. Thus, we only build the i686 version in EPEL. What happens here is that i686 version attempts to update the x86_64 one. (the same applies to qemu-guest-agent I guess)
See: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4130 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4267 Basically we really need some brave soul to hack mash to support whitelist/blacklists and/or work with the way RHEL does multiarch so we don't run into this. ;( Any takers? :) Could you just make this parallel installable? ie, 'qemu12' vs 'qemu' ? It would be a new review, but would avoid at least this issue.
Lubomir: Can we please unpush qemu on EPEL 6 testing till this is solved?
Lubomir, can you unpush the testing update in bodhi until this is fixed. thanks.
Sure, done.
Since this package has never been in EPEL (except as part of the testing repo), perhaps we can use a lower Epoch than Fedora and RHEL? Fedora and RHEL use 2, we can use 1.
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