[CentOS] Update from 7.3 to 7.4 failing because of architecture change from PPC64 to PPC

[Armin Kunaschik]

Yep. This worked. Thanks!
Why yum can't figure this out itself?

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 09/18/2017 08:18 AM, Armin Kunaschik wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having problems updating from 7.3 to 7.4 on my ppc64 (IBM Power7
>> p770) installation.
>> yum update stops with
>> Error:  Multilib version problems found.
>> [..]
>> Protected multilib versions: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc !=
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7_4.1.ppc64
>>
>> When I scroll back through the transaction check I see various package
>> dependencies for *.ppc instead of *.ppc64.
>> First appearance in the check is glibc.ppc and then everything goes nuts:
>> [..]
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package boost-date-time.ppc64 0:1.53.0-27.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package elfutils-default-yama-scope.noarch 0:0.168-8.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package glibc.ppc 0:2.17-196.el7 will be installed
>> --> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3) for
>> package: glibc-2.17-196.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so for package: glibc-2.17-196.el7.ppc
>> ---> Package grub2-common.noarch 1:2.02-0.64.el7.centos will be installed
>> ---> Package grub2-ppc64.ppc64 1:2.02-0.64.el7.centos will be installed
>> --> Processing Dependency: grub2-ppc64-modules =
>> 1:2.02-0.64.el7.centos for package:
>> 1:grub2-ppc64-2.02-0.64.el7.centos.ppc64
>> ---> Package gtk-update-icon-cache.ppc64 0:3.22.10-4.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package libfastjson.ppc64 0:0.99.4-2.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package libseccomp.ppc64 0:2.3.1-3.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package nss-pem.ppc64 0:1.0.3-4.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package python-linux-procfs.noarch 0:0.4.9-3.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package python-schedutils.ppc64 0:0.4-6.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package stix-fonts.noarch 0:1.1.0-5.el7 will be installed
>> ---> Package systemd-libs.ppc 0:219-42.el7 will be installed
>> --> Processing Dependency: libselinux.so.1 for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libpam_misc.so.0(LIBPAM_MISC_1.0) for
>> package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libpam_misc.so.0 for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libpam.so.0(LIBPAM_MODUTIL_1.0) for
>> package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libpam.so.0(LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0) for
>> package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libpam.so.0(LIBPAM_1.0) for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libpam.so.0 for package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: liblzma.so.5(XZ_5.0) for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: liblzma.so.5 for package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgpg-error.so.0 for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgcrypt.so.11(GCRYPT_1.2) for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgcrypt.so.11 for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3.1) for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libgcc_s.so.1 for package:
>> systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1 for package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libcap.so.2 for package: systemd-libs-219-42.el7.ppc
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package elfutils-libs.ppc 0:0.168-8.el7 will be installed
>> --> Processing Dependency: elfutils-libelf(ppc-32) = 0.168-8.el7 for
>> package: elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.2.3) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libz.so.1 for package: elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.7) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.6) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.5) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.4) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.3) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.1.1) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1(ELFUTILS_1.0) for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libelf.so.1 for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> --> Processing Dependency: libbz2.so.1 for package:
>> elfutils-libs-0.168-8.el7.ppc
>> [..]
>> The current 7.3 has no .ppc at all installed. All filesets are ppc64 or noarch.
>>
>> Is it possible, that the repo is damaged somehow? How can I create
>> additional info? Any idea how to fix it?
>>
>
> Try:
>
> yum --exclude '*.ppc' upgrade
>
>
>
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