I've rebuilt the metadata in the repository, can I have you run a yum
clean all and try the update again?
Not sure how it got out of sorts, but my tests here show it working as
expected.
Pat
On 01/13/2012 10:30 AM, Kevin Wood wrote:
I'm having the same problem. Running yum info cracklib shows that I
have the x86_64 version installed from repo
anaconda-ScientificLinux-201103021619.x86_64, which I'm guessing is
the DVD install media.
I tried uninstalling the installed version, but it would uninstall
650+ dependencies. I was able to yum reinstall it, but can't get the
i686 version to install without throwing the error. And updating the
x86_64 version requires the i686 version as a dependency, despite not
being on the system already.
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*From:* Eve V. E. Kovacs <[email protected]>
*To:* zxq9 <[email protected]>
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Friday, January 13, 2012 11:02 AM
*Subject:* Re: cracklib dependency problem
Sorry, apparently I wasn't clear on the fact that the system does NOT
have cracklib.i686 installed at present. It is yum that is trying to
install it, along with cracklib.x6_64. This is odd. I would think that
I would only need one or the other, and in my case that would be the
x86_64 version. I am wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior.
BTW, apparently this is an issue for SL6.0 only. I checked wth someone
who has SL6.1 and for them, the yum updare went smoothly.
Eve
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, zxq9 wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:47:20 +0900
> From: zxq9 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: cracklib dependency problem
>
> On 01/13/2012 08:16 AM, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
>> I am getting the following error when yum tries to do
>> the nightly update on an SL6 system:
>>
>> Transaction Check Error:
>> file /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/cracklib.mo conflicts between
>> attempted installs of cracklib-2.8.16-2.el6.i686 and
>> cracklib-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64
>> file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cracklib.mo conflicts between
>> attempted installs of cracklib-2.8.16-2.el6.i686 and
>> cracklib-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64
>>
>> The dependencies are messed up.
>> Does anyone know how to resolve this?
>
> Have you tried rebuilding your rpm database (rpm --rebuilddb)?
Usually I get pretty good luck with trying that before anything else.
>
> The second place to look would be to see if you really need both
i686 and x86_64. If you don't have anything that depends on i686 you
could safely remove it (this is likely, but check before you do anything).
>
> And... beyond that the cracklib package specs would need to be
checked to see why these two versions of the same package are trying
to override each other like that. These are only language translation
files -- so its really not a big deal if you let one squish the other
(it is extremely likely they are identical), but the spec should
already be written that way to begin with. Specifically, if they
really are different they should be installed to different locations,
and if they are idential then they should be in a separate
common-dependency noarch package or take another route to avoid a
conflict. If this paragraph just confuses you then don't bother with
specs unless you have some time on your hands, though.
>
> Hope this helped more than confused.
>
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