Samba Update

Joshua Jensen joshua at iwsp.com
Wed Sep 8 20:28:13 UTC 2004


As Jay points out, both archs of the package are there.

Are you suffering from this bug: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127784
?

Joshua


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:44:49AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, John Garmany wrote:
> 
> > Hi, is anyone else getting the a dependencies problems when you run up2date?
> > 
> > I get the message:
> > Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> > samba-3.0.3-5     requires samba-common = 0:3.0.3
> 
> Looks like RH forgot to publish an i386 version of the updated samba
> package for x86_64. I don't remember what exactly (if anything) requires 
> the i386 version on x86_64 but it's there and gets installed by default 
> from "Compatibility Arch Support" section. So up2date tries to update the 
> x86_64 version of samba packages which would pull in samba-common 3.0.6 
> which in turn would break the i386 version's dependencies.
> 
> > 
> > When I run rpm -qa|grep samba  I get samba-common-3.0.3-5
> > I also get two entrys for samba-3.0.3-5
> > 
> >  rpm -qa |grep samba
> > sambe-client-3.0.3-5
> > samba-common-3.0.3-5
> > system-config-samba-1.2.9-2
> > samba-3.0.3-5
> > samba-3.0.3-5
> > 
> > How did I end up with two copies of samba and how do I get rid of one?
> > Is the extra samba causing the unresolved chain of dependencies?
> 
> They're not really two copies, the other one is built for i386 and the 
> other for x86_64 (you can check with 
> 'rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}.%{arch}\n |grep samba')
> To remove such "duplicates" you can append the architecture to rpm 
> commands, eg to remove i386 version of samba you'd use 'rpm -e samba.i386'
> The real fix however is for RH to push the updated i386 samba package for 
> x86_64 as well. Or you can point up2date to the i386 update repository 
> in addition to the x86_64 repo as a workaround.
> 
> 	- Panu -
> 
> 
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