[rhelv6-list] question about Firefox 32- vs. 64-bit RPMs in rhel-6-server-rpms and rhel-6-server-optional-rpms repos

[Cale Fairchild]

It certainly seems that RedHat has moved the Firefox 32-bit client updates from the server repository to the optional as any server I have which is not subscribed to rhel-6-server-optional-rpms will also find the old firefox-31.1.0-5.el6_5.i686 package. I also recall noticing that one of my servers wanted to switch over to the i686 version on an upgrade but I can not recall what I did to fix it, and that same server performed the upgrade to 6.10 without that being an issue. Perhaps a 'yum clear all' would help as that is the only thing I can think that I would have done to resolve it?

Regards,
Cale Fairchild

-----Original Message-----
From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com <rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Horst Severini
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 9:30 AM
To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] question about firefox 32- vs. 64-bit RPMs in rhel-6-server-rpms and rhel-6-server-optional-rpms repos

Hi again,

I never received any response to this email. Are my emails going through to the list at all? I never even got my own email back.

Thanks,

	Horst

On 10/31/18 7:47 PM, Horst Severini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we noticed that on our 64-bit RHEL6 Server nodes, whenever there's a 
> firefox update, the 64-bit firefox RPM is being replaced with an 
> updated 32-bit RPM. I dug a little deeper, and I think the issue might 
> be that while there are both 32- and 64-bit versions in the 
> rhel-6-server-rpms repo, only the 32-bit version is in the 
> rhel-6-server-optional-rpms.
> 
> At least that's what I gather from the output of 'yum list firefox':
> 
> Installed Packages
> firefox.x86_64             60.3.0-1.el6              @rhel-6-server-rpms
> Available Packages
> firefox.i686               60.3.0-1.el6              rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
> 
> Actually, it's even weirder than that. If I uninstall firefox, then I 
> get this:
> 
> yum --disablerepo=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms list firefox
> 
> Available Packages
> firefox.i686                   31.1.0-5.el6_5                 rhel-6-server-rpms
> firefox.x86_64                 60.3.0-1.el6                   rhel-6-server-rpms
> 
> yum --disablerepo=rhel-6-server-rpms list firefox
> 
> Available Packages
> firefox.i686              60.3.0-1.el6               rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
> 
> Is there a reason for that? I would've expected that either both of 
> them should be provided by and updated in the same repo, or there 
> should only be a 64-bit version at all, like there is for thunderbird:
> 
> yum list thunderbird
> 
> Available Packages
> thunderbird.x86_64           52.9.1-1.el6            rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
> 
> Is there a way to fix this in the repos? If not, what would be the 
> easiest way to fix it on the client side? I suppose I could add some 'exclude=firefox'
> statement to the [rhel-6-server-optional-rpms] section in 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo, but I was hoping I didn't have to resort 
> to a hack like that.
> 
> Or are there other yum priority tweaks that could address this?
> 
> The weird thing is that during a fresh install, it picks the 64-bit 
> version, so I'm not sure why an updated 'favors' the 32-bit version. 
> Maybe rhel-6-server-optional-rpms is updated before 
> rhel-6-server-rpms, and therefore the 'yum update' can only find the 
> updated 32-bit version, and therefore chooses that one?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> 	Horst
> 

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