yum, x86_64 and i386: the never ending story

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 13 01:52:43 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 02:46 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2007, 19:27 +0100 schrieb Dominik 'Rathann'
> Mierzejewski:
> > On Wednesday, 12 December 2007 at 01:31, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > > sorry that I bring up this topic once again: why does yum install i386
> > > packages on a x86_64 system during groupinstall?
> > 
> > Doesn't
> > # yum install yum-basearchonly
> > help in this case?
> 
> Unfortunately not!
> 
> # rpm -qa --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}\\n \*xf\* | grep i386
> libXxf86vm-1.0.1-4.fc8-i386
> libXxf86misc-1.0.1-4.fc8-i386
> 
> So obviously I have no i386 Xfce packages installed. Now I'd like to
> test the Xfce 4.4.2 packages Kevin and me rolled out yesterday:
> 
> # yum install yum-basearchonly
> ...
> Installed: yum-basearchonly.noarch 0:1.1.8-1.fc8
> Complete!
> 
> # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing groupupdate XFCE
> Loading "basearchonly" plugin
> updates-testing           100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00     
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
> fedora-debuginfo          100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
> adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00     
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.1 MB    00:01     
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Setting up Group Process
> comps-f8.xml              100% |=========================| 1.2 MB    00:01     
> Package xfce4-session - 4.4.1-2.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfdesktop - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package Thunar - 0.8.0-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce-utils - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package libxfce4util - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package libxfce4mcs - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce4-session-engines - 4.4.1-2.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package libxfcegui4 - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce4-panel - 4.4.1-4.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfwm4 - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce4-mixer - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce4-mailwatch-plugin - 1.0.1-7.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce4-icon-theme - 4.4.1-3.fc8.noarch already installed and latest version
> Package xfce-mcs-manager - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce4-appfinder - 4.4.1-2.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfce-mcs-plugins - 4.4.1-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package xfprint - 4.4.1-2.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Package mousepad - 0.2.12-3.fc8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package libxfce4mcs.i386 0:4.4.1-3.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package libxfcegui4.i386 0:4.4.1-3.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package xfce4-session.i386 0:4.4.1-2.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package xfce4-panel.i386 0:4.4.1-4.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package Thunar.i386 0:0.8.0-3.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libexo-hal-0.3.so.0 for package: Thunar
> --> Processing Dependency: libexo-0.3.so.0 for package: Thunar
> ---> Package libxfce4util.i386 0:4.4.1-3.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package xfprint.i386 0:4.4.1-2.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package exo.i386 0:0.3.2-3.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  Thunar                  i386       0.8.0-3.fc8      fedora            5.2 M
>  xfce4-session           i386       4.4.1-2.fc8      fedora            509 k
>  xfprint                 i386       4.4.1-2.fc8      fedora            584 k
> Installing for dependencies:
>  exo                     i386       0.3.2-3.fc8      fedora            679 k
>  libxfce4mcs             i386       4.4.1-3.fc8      fedora             46 k
>  libxfce4util            i386       4.4.1-3.fc8      fedora             73 k
>  libxfcegui4             i386       4.4.1-3.fc8      fedora            277 k
>  xfce4-panel             i386       4.4.1-4.fc8      fedora            530 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      8 Package(s)         
> Update       0 Package(s)         
> Remove       0 Package(s)         
> 
> Total download size: 7.9 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> Exiting on user Command
> Complete!
> 
> The whole group process seems really broken to me.

yum list installed \*.i386

just curious what you do have installed.

groupcommands increase the weirdness since they offer no arch
specification at all.

-sv





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