I found an odd problem with yum. Hopefully this description will make
sense.
I am updating parts of Fedora Core 4 test 1 using Yum on an x86_64.
If I update something that drags in a package to satisfy a dependency
for one architecture (x86_64 usually) for a package with multiple
architectures installed, it does not update the other architecture. This
causes the update to fail.
For example, I try and update nautilus, it wants to update libexif.
There are two copies of libexif installed, but only one architecture
gets dragged into the update.
I am also seeing occasional failures like this:
[root@dagon ~]# yum update libexif* naut* eog* kdegra*
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package nautilus.x86_64 0:2.10.0-2 set to be updated
---> Package nautilus-cd-burner.x86_64 0:2.10.0-2 set to be updated
---> Package libexif-devel.x86_64 0:0.6.12-1 set to be updated
---> Package nautilus-cd-burner-devel.x86_64 0:2.10.0-2 set to be
updated
---> Package eog.x86_64 0:2.10.0-1 set to be updated
---> Package kdegraphics.x86_64 7:3.4.0-2 set to be updated
---> Package kdegraphics-devel.x86_64 7:3.4.0-2 set to be updated
---> Package libexif.x86_64 0:0.6.12-1 set to be updated
---> Package libexif.i386 0:0.6.12-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libexif.so.9 for package: nautilus
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 113, in main
(result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
File "__init__.py", line 279, in buildTransaction
File "depsolve.py", line 213, in resolveDeps
File "depsolve.py", line 344, in _processReq
File "depsolve.py", line 432, in _requiringFromInstalled
File "sqlitesack.py", line 390, in returnNewestByNameArch
IndexError: pop from empty list
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