[rhelv6-list] why do errata and package updates fail?

Mirko Vukovic mirko.vukovic at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 19:13:39 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 01:31 PM, thomas at redhat.com wrote:
>>
>> The Protected multilib error tells me you might have two versions (i686
>> and x86_64) of a package installed. This is not a big deal, but the
>> nature of using RHN to do updates is that it processes each errata and
>> the associated RPMs serially. So if you have one erratum which addresses
>> the 32-bit version of a file and another which addresses the 64-bit
>> version, you might see that. You might get an error when it tries to
>> update the first package because of common dependencies with the second.
>> Without more of the error message, it's hard to tell, but I don't see
>> anything which is seriously alarming in what you've posted. Frustrating,
>> for sure. But not unexpected.
>
>
> My understanding of this ^^^ is probably wrong. I checked and there should
> not be different errata for different architectures. I am digging as to what
> actually causes that multilib conflict. It would be really helpful if you
> could post the whole history. You can dump it in raw format from the same
> location I pointed you to earlier.
>
> I'm terribly sorry for the noise. I'll post when I get a better
> understanding of what causes this.
>
>

I'm sorry but I don't see how to download the raw data from the
system/events/history page.  (I checked on knowledge base, but other
than yum and rpm logs, and /var/log, I did not find anything)

Mirko




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