Bug 19801

Summary:	dnf finds spurious conflicting packages
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Chris Denice <eatdirt>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageiatools, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dnf-1.1.10-2.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	the error log of dnf

Description Chris Denice 2016-11-16 18:24:36 CET

Hi,
I have given a try to dnf to my current cauldron, which used to be synced with urpmi --auto-update.

I did:
dnf check-update
which worked fine and listed the packages to be upgraded.

Then
dnf distro-sync

which failed with the messages in attachments, namely some conflicting packages but only under i586 (I am running x86_64)

Therefore, I did a urpmi --auto-update, which succeeded without finding any conflicts. So either urpmi hides the conflicts, or dnf finds conflicts that do not exist!?

Cheers,
chris.

Comment 1 Chris Denice 2016-11-16 18:24:58 CET

Created attachment 8673 [details]
the error log of dnf

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-17 09:42:51 CET

This might be a duplicate of bug 18343 (which needs a better summary than it has), I cannot tell from the attachment which version of those libraries was installed.

See the note here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Using_DNF :
> When dnf searches for dependencies, it'll stop looking when it finds a hit.
> That means that dnf can want to install a 32bit library, even if you're on a 64
> bit system and installing the 64bit version of the same library is preferred.
> You can add --exclude *.i586 to your command to avoid pulling in 32bit packages

CC: (none) => mageiatools, marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => ngompa13

Comment 3 Neal Gompa 2016-11-17 14:28:52 CET

This is happening because your urpmi repository configuration includes 32-bit repositories, and you've installed 32-bit library packages.

You need to enable the corresponding 32-bit repositories in DNF. It's a variant of bug 19480.

The reason this happens is that mageia-repos (the package shipping the default repository configuration) has the 32-bit repositories disabled by default.

It's mentioned in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Using_DNF:

> 32-bit repositories are turned off by default on 64-bit x86.

Try enabling the correct repositories.

Comment 4 Neal Gompa 2016-11-17 14:29:47 CET

It also mentions you have tainted enabled, which means you need to also enable that through dnf config-manager.

Comment 5 Neal Gompa 2016-11-17 14:30:43 CET

Err, tainted and nonfree repositories enabled, I mean.

Comment 6 Chris Denice 2016-11-17 19:42:14 CET

ah, very good, thanks for the clarifications.
Then I close the bug as invalid!

Thanks!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID