[rhelv6-list] question about firefox 32- vs. 64-bit RPMs in rhel-6-server-rpms and rhel-6-server-optional-rpms repos
Horst Severini
hs at nhn.ou.edu
Thu Nov 8 15:57:11 UTC 2018
Thanks Marco!
I just looked at the archive, and there is a reply from solarflow99 las
Friday, which I for some reason never got!
> in the yum repo file it usually has a $basearch in the URL
Yes, I see that in all the URLs in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo, but
it's not clear to me where/how that is set. It's presumably set to
x86_64, though, since these are all 64-bit servers:
[hs at ouhep5 ~]$ uname -a
Linux ouhep5.nhn.ou.edu 2.6.32-754.6.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 18
10:29:08 EDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[hs at ouhep5 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
But in a 64-bit server, there are plenty of 32-bit RPMs -- which are of
course necessary -- and firefox is one of the ones which come in both
flavors, so I'm not sure why the rhel-6-server-rpms repo only contains
the 64-bit version (plus a really old 32-bit version), while the
rhel-6-server-optional-rpms repo only contains the 32-bit version. That
seems like an oversight.
Who is in charge of these repos? I would think that firefox should be in
one or the other, but not both -- and particularly not different flavors
in each?
Thanks a lot,
Horst
On 11/8/18 9:22 AM, Marco Shaw wrote:
> Received. Archives here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-list/
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:59 AM Horst Severini <hs at nhn.ou.edu
> <mailto: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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