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

[thomas at redhat.com]

On 10/09/2012 01:55 PM, 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.
>

This BZ demonstrates the case you ran into:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758428

It appears that the issue is being worked on.
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