smart upgrade problem with obsolete package

[Heinz Deinhart]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Jani Partanen wrote:

> My suggestion is that you put lower priority to all 3rd party repositories,
> that way your system will stay as clean as possible and only packets what
> isn't available from cenos repository is installed from 3rd party repos (and
> deps)

Thanks for the advice, but the problem happens even if i do not use any 
3rd party repos at all. The pidgin package is a regular update from 
CentOS/Redhat.

But i may have tracked the problem down a bit, it only happens on x86_64 
where two gaim packages are installed (i386 and x86_64). I created an 
corresponding scenario with a centos5/i386 distro where only gaim.i386 is 
installed. And there the upgrade works, pidgin gets installed and gaim 
removed.

So maybe smart fails to upgrade because it gets confused by those 
different architectures?

thanks & ciao,
Heinz

>
>
>> -----Original Message----- From: smart-bounces at lists.labix.org 
>> [mailto:smart-bounces at lists.labix.org] On Behalf Of Heinz Deinhart 
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:10 PM To: smart at lists.labix.org 
>> Subject: smart upgrade problem with obsolete package

>> Hi,
>>
>> i try to use smart to update my CentOS5 (free RHEL5) systems
>> and have some trouble with upgrading.
>>
>> My scenario is: I have a newly installed CentOS5/x86_64
>> machine and put the smart package from ATRPMS on it
>> (smart-0.50-47.el5). Then i try to upgrade the system from
>> some locally available rpm-md channels (Which work finde if i
>> do a yum update). "smart upgrade --yes" fails with this
>> error:
>>
>> error: file /usr/bin/gaim from install of pidgin-2.0.2-3.el5
>> conflicts with file from package gaim-2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5
>>
>> Installed is gaim-2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 (both i386 and x86_64)
>> and no pidgin version at all.
>>
>> That is strange, because when i do a yum update and then
>> check the pidgin package it tells me:
>> # rpm -q pidgin.i386 --obsoletes
>> gaim < 999:1
>> # rpm -q pidgin.x86_64 --obsoletes
>> gaim < 999:1
>>
>>
>> So obviously smart checks that pidgin needs to be installed during
>> upgrade because it is a replacement for gaim. But it does not
>> delete gaim
>> before upgarding.
>>
>> Of course i tried to use a manually installed 0.51 version of smart
>> instead of ATRPMs 0.50, but the problem did not go away. Same
>> with the
>> subversion trunk from today 11:16 CEST.
>>
>> Is this a bug or can it be that i missed some config option?
>>
>> thanks for help & ciao,
>> Heinz
>>
>> PS: you can find more logs at http://www.nix.at/smart-problem/
>> Let me know if you need any more infos
>>
>> --
>> Heinz Deinhart <heinz at tilab.tuwien.ac.at>           +43 1 58801-19521
>> Technische Universitaet Wien, E195                       Treitlstr. 3
>> www.tilab.tuwien.ac.at                                      1040 Wien
>>
>>
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Heinz Deinhart <heinz at tilab.tuwien.ac.at>           +43 1 58801-19521
Technische Universitaet Wien, E195                       Treitlstr. 3
www.tilab.tuwien.ac.at                                      1040 Wien