Problems with firefox continue?

[Peter Robinson]

>> Is todays "yum  update" crazy or am I? Why it wants to install 45
>> packages, mostly from fedora base repo, which are of course already
>> installed?
> ....
>>  nspluginwrapper         x86_64     1.1.0-3.fc9      updates           151
>>  xulrunner               x86_64     1.9.0.1-1.fc9    updates           8.7
>                                       ^^^^^^^^
> ....
>>  xulrunner               i386       1.9-1.fc9        updates           9.0
>                                       ^^^^^^^
>
> Something pulls in an older version of xulrunner.i386 probably to
> resolve dependencies in nspluginwrapper.  Version 1.1.0-3 was not
> supposed to do that anymore but an update for nspluginwrapper.i386
> is conspiciously missing on your list so you are likely left with
> an older one.  All other i386 stuff is then added to that list
> due to dependencies.
>
> Just a guess but you may check it if you will look closer at what
> yum tells you.

I'm seeing the same issue but I don't have nspluginwrapper installed.
It seems that its xulrunner x86_64 is pulling things in. I've done a
'yum clean all' but it still wants to pull in a heap of i386 packages,

Peter

[root at euuklonw7300b1n ~]# yum update xulrunner.x86_64
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check

<snip the dependency resolution>

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
 devhelp                 x86_64     0.19.1-3.fc9     updates           227 k
 epiphany                x86_64     2.22.2-3.fc9     updates           5.7 M
 xulrunner               x86_64     1.9.0.1-1.fc9    updates           8.7 M
 xulrunner-devel         x86_64     1.9.0.1-1.fc9    updates           3.4 M
 xulrunner-devel-unstable  x86_64     1.9.0.1-1.fc9    updates           3.4 M
 yelp                    x86_64     2.22.1-4.fc9     updates           876 k
Installing for dependencies:
 GConf2                  i386       2.22.0-1.fc9     fedora            1.6 M
 ORBit2                  i386       2.14.12-3.fc9    fedora            183 k
 atk                     i386       1.22.0-1.fc9     fedora            215 k
 avahi                   i386       0.6.22-10.fc9    fedora            245 k
 avahi-glib              i386       0.6.22-10.fc9    fedora             17 k
 bzip2-libs              i386       1.0.5-2.fc9      updates            38 k
 cairo                   i386       1.6.4-1.fc9      fedora            548 k
 cups-libs               i386       1:1.3.7-8.fc9    updates           200 k
 dbus-glib               i386       0.74-8.fc9       updates           165 k
 dbus-libs               i386       1.2.1-2.fc9      updates-testing   127 k
 fontconfig              i386       2.5.0-2.fc9      fedora            179 k
 freetype                i386       2.3.5-6.fc9      updates           337 k
 gamin                   i386       0.1.9-5.fc9      fedora            124 k
 glib2                   i386       2.16.4-1.fc9     updates           1.3 M
 gnome-vfs2              i386       2.22.0-1.fc9     fedora            1.1 M
 gnutls                  i386       2.0.4-3.fc9      updates           371 k
 gtk2                    i386       2.12.11-1.fc9    updates           6.8 M
 hal-libs                i386       0.5.11-2.fc9     updates            65 k
 hunspell                i386       1.2.1-7.fc9      updates           186 k
 libIDL                  i386       0.8.10-2.fc9     fedora             88 k
 libXcomposite           i386       0.4.0-4.fc9      fedora             14 k
 libXcursor              i386       1.1.9-2.fc9      fedora             29 k
 libXft                  i386       2.1.12-5.fc9     fedora             45 k
 libXi                   i386       1.1.3-4.fc9      fedora             28 k
 libXinerama             i386       1.0.3-1.fc9      fedora             13 k
 libXrandr               i386       1.2.2-3.fc9      fedora             21 k
 libXrender              i386       0.9.4-3.fc9      fedora             28 k
 libXt                   i386       1.0.4-5.fc9      fedora            173 k
 libacl                  i386       2.2.47-1.fc9     fedora             22 k
 libattr                 i386       2.4.41-1.fc9     fedora             13 k
 libbonobo               i386       2.22.0-2.fc9     fedora            475 k
 libcap                  i386       2.06-4.fc9       fedora             29 k
 libdaemon               i386       0.12-3.fc9       fedora             26 k
 libgnome                i386       2.22.0-3.fc9     fedora            977 k
 libpng                  i386       2:1.2.29-1.fc9   updates           251 k
 libtasn1                i386       1.3-1.fc9        fedora            292 k
 libthai                 i386       0.1.9-4.fc9      fedora            187 k
 nspr                    i386       4.7.1-0.9.1.fc9  updates           122 k
 nss                     i386       3.12.0.3-0.9.1.fc9  updates           1.1 M
 pango                   i386       1.20.4-1.fc9     updates           362 k
 pixman                  i386       0.10.0-1.fc9     fedora             77 k
 sqlite                  i386       3.5.9-1.fc9      updates-testing   244 k
 xulrunner               i386       1.9-0.60.beta5.fc9  fedora            8.9 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install     43 Package(s)
Update       6 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 50 M
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