More and more yum dependency problems

[Paul Howarth]

Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On 8/2/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>Harald Grossauer wrote:
>>
>>>>You may be able to fix your mozilla issues by doing:
>>>># curl --remote-name http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.i386.rpm
>>>># yum localinstall mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.i386.rpm
>>>>
>>>
>>>Result:
>>>
>>>Setting up Local Package Process
>>>Examining mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.i386.rpm: mozilla - 37:1.7.10-1.5.1.i386
>>>Marking mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.i386.rpm as an update to mozilla -
>>>37:1.7.8-2.x86_64
>>>Marking mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.i386.rpm as an update to mozilla -
>>>37:1.7.8-2.i386
>>>Resolving Dependencies
>>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>>---> Package mozilla.i386 37:1.7.10-1.5.1 set to be updated
>>>--> Running transaction check
>>>Setting up repositories
>>>updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>>>extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>>>base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>>>Reading repository metadata in from local files
>>>primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 297 kB    00:00
>>>updates-re: ################################################## 811/811
>>>Added 122 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.97 seconds
>>>--> Processing Dependency: mozilla-nspr = 37:1.7.10-1.5.1 for package:
>>>mozilla
>>>--> Processing Dependency: mozilla-nss = 37:1.7.10-1.5.1 for package:
>>>mozilla
>>>--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
>>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>>---> Package mozilla-nspr.x86_64 37:1.7.10-1.5.1 set to be updated
>>>---> Package mozilla-nss.x86_64 37:1.7.10-1.5.1 set to be updated
>>>--> Running transaction check
>>>
>>>Dependencies Resolved
>>>
>>>=============================================================================
>>> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
>>>=============================================================================
>>>Updating:
>>> mozilla                 i386       37:1.7.10-1.5.1
>>>mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.i386.rpm   25 M
>>>Updating for dependencies:
>>> mozilla-nspr            x86_64     37:1.7.10-1.5.1  updates-released  126 k
>>> mozilla-nss             x86_64     37:1.7.10-1.5.1  updates-released  787 k
>>>
>>>Transaction Summary
>>>=============================================================================
>>>Install      0 Package(s)
>>>Update       3 Package(s)
>>>Remove       0 Package(s)
>>>Total download size: 26 M
>>>Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>>Downloading Packages:
>>>Running Transaction Test
>>>Finished Transaction Test
>>>Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/bin/mozilla from install of
>>>mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1 conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2
>>>  file /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz from install of
>>>mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1 conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2
>>
>>This isn't working because it needs to update both i386 and x86_64
>>versions of mozilla at the same time. Did you bugzilla the fact that
>>there is no mozilla.i386 update in the x86_64 updates-released repo?
> 
> 
> No, it's not working because programs are not packaged to be installed
> for two different architectures at the same time.  Remember the issue
> with updating perl on x86_64 a while back with FC3?  You can install
> either the 32-bit (with some tricks) or 64-bit version, but not both
> (using the official RPM packages, that is).
> Note that I said "programs" above.  There are libraries and such that
> can be installed for 32-bit and 64-bit at the same time and are meant
> to have that capability.  The fact that there is no i386 mozilla
> update is because there was no i386 package to begin with.  This is
> not a bug.  The packages that are showing up with both 32-bit and
> 64-bit versions are libraries that some other (32-bit) programs use.

I think you *can* install i386 and x86_64 versions of just about 
anything at the same time, as long as they're the exact same 
epoch-version-release (not that it's a good idea). You're certainly 
right about there not having been a mozilla.i386 package in the FC4 to 
start with, which begs the question: how did the OP end up with 
mozilla.i386 on his system?

I'll go off and retract that bug report now...

Paul.