[rhelv6-list] why do errata and package updates fail?

[thomas at redhat.com]

On 10/09/2012 02:13 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 10/09/2012 01:31 PM, thomas at redhat.com wrote:
>>>
>>> The Protected multilib error tells me you might have two versions (i686
>>> and x86_64) of a package installed. This is not a big deal, but the
>>> nature of using RHN to do updates is that it processes each errata and
>>> the associated RPMs serially. So if you have one erratum which addresses
>>> the 32-bit version of a file and another which addresses the 64-bit
>>> version, you might see that. You might get an error when it tries to
>>> update the first package because of common dependencies with the second.
>>> Without more of the error message, it's hard to tell, but I don't see
>>> anything which is seriously alarming in what you've posted. Frustrating,
>>> for sure. But not unexpected.
>>
>>
>> My understanding of this ^^^ is probably wrong. I checked and there should
>> not be different errata for different architectures. I am digging as to what
>> actually causes that multilib conflict. It would be really helpful if you
>> could post the whole history. You can dump it in raw format from the same
>> location I pointed you to earlier.
>>
>> I'm terribly sorry for the noise. I'll post when I get a better
>> understanding of what causes this.
>>
>>
>
> I'm sorry but I don't see how to download the raw data from the
> system/events/history page.  (I checked on knowledge base, but other
> than yum and rpm logs, and /var/log, I did not find anything)

Argh. I'm just full of fail today. RHN Satellite allows you to view the 
raw output. RHN Hosted apparently does not.
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