[rhelv6-list] is anyone else having multi-arch issues with neon?

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:11:40AM -0500, Leinweber, James wrote:
> Running "sudo yum update -y" for the neon package fails thusly:
> -----------------
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
> This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
> rhel-x86_64-server-6
> | 1.8 kB     00:00
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package microcode_ctl.x86_64 1:1.17-14.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package microcode_ctl.x86_64 1:1.17-15.el6_4 will be an update
> ---> Package neon.x86_64 0:0.29.3-2.el6 will be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: neon = 0.29.3-2.el6 for package:
> neon-devel-0.29.3-2.el6.x86_64
> ---> Package neon.x86_64 0:0.29.3-3.el6_4 will be an update
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package neon.i686 0:0.29.3-2.el6 will be installed
[snip]
> Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
>        cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
>        pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
> 
>          1. You have an upgrade for neon which is missing some
>             dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
>             solve this by installing an older version of neon of the
>             different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
>             yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
>             requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
>             --exclude neon.otherarch ... this should give you an error
>             message showing the root cause of the problem.

Does this system have neon-devel installed?  The neon-devel package,
like most -devel packages, requires a matching version/release of the
neon package, and that could be the missing dependency for case #1.

Based on the logged output, the system doesn't appear to be subscribed
to the "RHEL Server Optional" channel, which is where neon-devel, and
corresponding updates for it, would be found.

HTH,

Nalin