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0006693CentOS-6-OTHERpublic2013-10-02 15:052013-10-02 18:39
Reporterdwillic1 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status assignedResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version6.4
Product Version6.4 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0006693: Old .i686 packages in 6.4/os/x86_64/Packages causing yum update on 6.3 to fail with Error: Protected multilib versions
Description
centos-6/6.4/os/x86_64/Packages contains mis-matched versions (new x86_64 but old i686). For example:
            gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.2-20.el6.i686.rpm 26-Jun-2012 07:56 562K
            gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.2-30.el6.x86_64.rpm 23-Feb-2013 17:40 612K

            control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-37.el6.i686.rpm 26-Jun-2012 07:54 50K
            control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-38.el6.x86_64.rpm 23-Feb-2013 17:40 50K

Meanwhile centos-6/6.4/os/i386/Packages does contain the required NEW i686 versions:
            gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.2-30.el6.i686.rpm 23-Feb-2013 17:52 611K
            control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-38.el6.i686.rpm 23-Feb-2013 17:51 50K


The x86_64 mismatch causes 'yum update' (to upgrade from CentOS 6.3 to 6.4) to fail with:

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Protected multilib versions: 1:control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-38.el6.x86_64 != 1:control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-37.el6.i686
Error: Protected multilib versions: gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.2-30.el6.x86_64 != gnome-settings-daemon-2.28.2-20.el6.i686
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest


The workaround was to download both the new i686 and new x86_64 RPMs manually and install them manually.
After the offending packages are upgraded, then 'yum update' runs without further error and successfully brings the system from 6.3 to 6.4.


 





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toracat

toracat

2013-10-02 17:56

manager   ~0018128

Do you actually need the 32-bit version of those packages? If not, removing them would be the best solution. They (32-bit) are not in the upstream's x86_64 repo. So, if you need them, manual download / install as you have done is the way to resolve the issue.
dwillic1

dwillic1

2013-10-02 18:39

reporter   ~0018130

My main reason for reporting it was to point out the inconsistency in the repos with the hope that I won't get hit with other cases when updating our many other systems in the future. I was hoping there was some sort of automatic consistency check & fix done on the repos.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-10-02 15:05 dwillic1 New Issue
2013-10-02 17:56 toracat Note Added: 0018128
2013-10-02 18:35 toracat Status new => assigned
2013-10-02 18:35 toracat Description Updated View Revisions
2013-10-02 18:39 dwillic1 Note Added: 0018130