Re: up2date won't update openoffice

[John Baldock <baldock netspace net au>]

On Sun, 1 May 2005 12:28 am, taroon-list-request redhat com wrote:
> > > I have two machines running RHEL3-U5.  Both are dual Opteron, running
> > > 64 bit.  Both are entitles.  One is WS and one is ES.  Both behave
> > > identically with respect to the information below.
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > redhat-artwork                          0.73.2         2E              
> > >     startup-notification                    0.5            1 libmng    
> > >                              1.0.4          3
> > >
> > > 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
>
> It looks like a multilib conflict.
>
> Do you see an i386 and x86_64 version of bonobo-activation when you run:
>
> rpm -q bonobo-activation --qf "%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n"
>
> RHN has a bonobo-activation.i386 and a bonobo-activation.x86_64.
>
> You probably only want the x86_64 rpm, so if the i386 rpm shows up, you
> might try rpm -e bonobo-activation.i386, then run up2date again.
>
> Alternately, you could get both bonobo-activation rpms with up2date
> --get, and install them manually with rpm -U --force. They're only
> conflicting over a man page. :)

I also have this problem with openoffice running on RHEL AS v3.

All of the dependencies listed by up2date are installed as x86_64 versions and 
no i386 versions of these packages are installed.

Openoffice is currently installed from i386 packages and is working using the 
x86_64 dependencies. So I do not want to duplicate the x86_64 packages with 
i386 packages unless it is required.

Is there any documentation around describing the way x86_64 and i386 packages 
interact as these types of errors seem to occur regularly.

Just checked again and mozilla seems to have joined the list.

up2date -u  --dry-run
	mozilla			1.7.7	1.1.3.4		i386
	mozilla			1.7.7	1.1.3.4		x86_64
	mozilla-chat		1.7.7	1.1.3.4		x86_64
	mozilla-mail		1.7.7	1.1.3.4		x86_64
	mozilla-nspr		1.7.7	1.1.3.4		i386
	mozilla-nspr		1.7.7	1.1.3.4		x86_64
	mozilla-nss		1.7.7	1.1.3.4		i386
	mozilla-nss		1.7.7	1.1.3.4		x86_64
	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

up2date -u  mozilla mozilla-chat mozilla-mail mozilla-nspr mozilla-nss

	. . . . .
	. . . . .
	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
	--------------------------------------------------------------
	ORBit2				2.6.2	1
	bonobo-activation		2.2.2	1
	gnome-vfs2			2.2.5		2E.1
	linc					1.0.3	1
	GConf2				2.2.1	4
	bzip2-libs				1.0.2	11
	fam					2.6.8	15
	libbonobo				2.2.3	1
	libxml2				2.5.10	7

	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


John Baldock