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

[solarflow99]

in the yum repo file it usually has a $basearch in the URL

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:55 PM Horst Severini <hs at nhn.ou.edu> 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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