yum cannot deal with "multilib" updates again - sigh!

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Fri Aug 3 18:25:13 UTC 2007


With rawhide eventually "unplugged" an attempt to run 'yum update'
resulted in the following:

Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gucharmap
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper >= 0.3.11 for gnome-user-docs
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper >= 0.1.4 for gnome-media
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gnumeric
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gconf-editor
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper >= 0.3.4 for gnucash-docs
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gthumb
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for fast-user-switch-applet
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for ggv
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gnome-utils
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for yelp
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for totem
Error: Unresolveable requirement /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update for gtkam
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gdm
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gtk-doc
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gnome-terminal
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for libgnomedb-devel
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for eog
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for rhythmbox
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper >= 0.1.4 for printman
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for gnome-pilot
Error: Unresolveable requirement scrollkeeper for libgnomedb

and an update clearly bailed out leaving no further clues what
may be the problem; especially that scrollkeeper-0.3.14-11.fc7,
not that surprisingly, is present on the system.

Only further detective work revealed that the above is a result
of a yum attempt to replace scrollkeeper.x86_64 with rarian.i386
(although rarian.86_64 is also mentioned in a transaction too and
rarian.i386 is definitely not wanted).  Excluding 'rarian' allowed
to proceed and I can deal with that issue later.

I believe that this is one more example of a well known bogosity
but if another bugzilla report is desired I can add one.

   Michal




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