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

[Gary Gatling]

I don't use RHEL 6 any longer for desktops so I have no answer concerning
firefox and 32 vs 64 bit rpms. But I did want to mention I saw your message.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:59 AM Horst Severini <hs at nhn.ou.edu> wrote:

> 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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