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

[Johnny Hughes]

On 09/18/2017 10:30 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> yum currently has issues with obsoletes .. especially when something
> like a noarch file gets obsoleted by an $arch type rpm and there are 2
> (multi) arches available to replace it.  It pulls in BOTH, not just the
> one arch you have installed .. and that then pulls in deps for the 2nd
> arch that you don't currently have.
> 
> Hopefully they will fix this.
> 
> There is an option called multilib_policy BUT that does not work with
> obsoletes, only updates.
> 

Because of this , I put

exclude=*.i686

in my x86_64 installs that I am sure I do not need 32 bit packages on.


> On 09/18/2017 09:01 AM, Armin Kunaschik wrote:
>> 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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