Redhat installs both an i386/i686 and x86_64 versions of 47 RPM's when
you do an install and select the "Everything" option. This appears to
present a problem when using yum to update patches as there appears to
be no way to do a --nodeps rpm equivalent. To give one example of a
package with multiple arch'es load and patching problems let's look at
trying to patch samba on a freshly loaded x86_64 machine:
Here proof the i386 and x86_64 version are loaded:
# grep samba- /root/install.log
Installing samba-common-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64.
Installing samba-client-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64.
Installing samba-3.0.0-14.3E.i386.
Installing samba-3.0.0-14.3E.x86_64.
Installing redhat-config-samba-1.0.16-1.noarch.
Here's what happens when I patch by hand w/ RPM (get the same dependency
error when using yum):
# ls
samba-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm
samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.i386.rpm
samba-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm
samba-common-3.0.2-6.3E.x86_64.rpm
[root@dpmlh090 patches]# rpm -Fvh `ls`
error: Failed dependencies:
libreadline.so.4 is needed by samba-client-3.0.2-6.3E
The readline installed is the 64 bit version not the 32, so when you try
and patch the i386 version of sambe you've got problems... I opened a
ticket on this w/ redhat and they said for patching to work I have to
specify both the i386 and x86_64 version as shown above and patch with
the --nodeps option for the packages that multiple arch's are loaded
for. Up2date handles this and patches correctly. Has any one else run
into this and found a work around with yum or am I missing something???
Thanks in advance...
JJ
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JJ Urich
CSG Director
The University of Iowa
Phone 319-335-0750
Email: jjurich at divms dot uiowa dot edu
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