Should I have an RPM installed twice? (x86_64-related??)
Joachim Backes
backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Wed Nov 24 07:45:00 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:36 +0000, Nigel Tao wrote:
> I seem to have the "gnome-vfs2" package installed twice:
Hi, Nigel,
I have the same problem under RH Enterprise Linux 3 with a lot of
packages, but RedHat was not able to give me a sufficient answer
concerning this behaviour. They told me to make a complete re-install
of my server machine :-(
Regards
> ntao:~ rpm -q gnome-vfs2
> gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8
> gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8
>
> (More details below.)
>
> Is this unusual? Or standard behavior? Is it significant that I am
> running x86_64? It turns out that I seem to have 54 such duplicated
> packages:
> ntao:~ rpm -qa | sort | uniq -d | wc --lines
> 54
>
> All my rpm changes since installation have been through "yum update",
> and I haven't messed around with my /etc/yum.conf at all.
>
> This is problematic because "yum update" now chokes on me - and "gnome-
> vfs2" gets mentioned:
>
>
>
> [root ~]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repo: base
> repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> Setting up Repo: updates-released
> repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> base : ################################################## 2852/2852
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 94 kB 00:02
> MD Read : ################################################## 241/241
> updates-re: ################################################## 241/241
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for gamin-devel to pack into transaction set.
> gamin-devel-0.0.17-1.FC3. 100% |=========================| 4.8 kB 00:00
> ---> Package gamin-devel.x86_64 0:0.0.17-1.FC3 set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for gamin to pack into transaction set.
> gamin-0.0.17-1.FC3.x86_64 100% |=========================| 7.5 kB 00:00
> ---> Package gamin.x86_64 0:0.0.17-1.FC3 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libfam.so.0 for package: gnome-vfs2
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libfam.so.0 is needed by package gnome-vfs2
>
> [root ~]# rpm -q gamin gnome-vfs2
> gamin-0.0.15-1
> gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8
> gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8
>
> [root ~]# ls /usr/lib64/libfam.so.0
> /usr/lib64/libfam.so.0
>
> [root ~]# ls /usr/lib/libfam.so.0
> ls: /usr/lib/libfam.so.0: No such file or directory
>
>
>
> I filed a bugzilla report on gamin - but is this a yum or an rpm problem
> instead?
>
> thanks,
> Nigel.
>
>
>
>
>
> A more detailed investigation shows that the two are slightly different
> (e.g., different Size, different Build Date, different Build Host, but
> same Signature Key ID):
> ntao:~ rpm -qi gnome-vfs2
> Name : gnome-vfs2 Relocations: (not
> relocatable)
> Version : 2.8.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release : 8 Build Date: Wed 20 Oct 2004
> 07:20:41 EST
> Install Date: Wed 10 Nov 2004 22:49:17 EST Build Host:
> bugs.build.redhat.com
> Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: gnome-
> vfs2-2.8.2-8.src.rpm
> Size : 4097584 License: LGPL
> Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 21 Oct 2004 05:03:16 EST, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL : http://www.gnome.org/
> Summary : The GNOME virtual file-system libraries.
> Description :
> GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of
> the Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and
> ships with several modules that implement support for file systems,
> http, ftp, and others. It provides a URI-based API, backend
> supporting asynchronous file operations, a MIME type manipulation
> library, and other features.
> Name : gnome-vfs2 Relocations: (not
> relocatable)
> Version : 2.8.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release : 8 Build Date: Wed 20 Oct 2004
> 06:23:50 EST
> Install Date: Wed 10 Nov 2004 22:49:18 EST Build Host:
> thor.perf.redhat.com
> Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: gnome-
> vfs2-2.8.2-8.src.rpm
> Size : 4352702 License: LGPL
> Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 21 Oct 2004 05:03:21 EST, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL : http://www.gnome.org/
> Summary : The GNOME virtual file-system libraries.
> Description :
> GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of
> the Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and
> ships with several modules that implement support for file systems,
> http, ftp, and others. It provides a URI-based API, backend
> supporting asynchronous file operations, a MIME type manipulation
> library, and other features.
>
>
--
Regards
Joachim Backes
Joachim Backes <backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center,
High Performance Computing,
D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
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