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

[Mirko Vukovic]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:39 PM, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 01:55 PM, 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.
>>
>
> This BZ demonstrates the case you ran into:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758428
>
> It appears that the issue is being worked on.
>

Thanks for the info.  In the meantime, I'll put it on my schedule to
do a manual yum update once a week.

Thanks to all,

Mirko